Radiographic Imaging System

Abstract

A radiographic imaging system includes a radiation source configured to irradiate a subject with radiation, multiple radiographic imaging apparatuses each including multiple radiation detecting elements arranged two-dimensionally, and configured to read charges generated in the radiation detecting elements as a result of irradiation with radiation as image data and transmit a signal in response to user's operation, and a console configured to register multiple radiographing order information items each including information indicating which radiographic imaging apparatus is to be used for conducting radiographing, or acquire the registered radiographing order information items, wherein upon receiving the signal from one radiographic imaging apparatus, the console changes specification of information on the radiographic imaging apparatus in radiographing order information item determined for radiographing to be conducted next to information on the radiographic imaging apparatus without switching the radiographing order information item to another radiographing order information item.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A radiographic imaging system comprising:
 a radiation source configured to irradiate a subject with radiation;   multiple radiographic imaging apparatuses each including multiple radiation detecting elements arranged two-dimensionally, and configured to read charges generated in the radiation detecting elements as a result of irradiation with radiation as image data and transmit a signal in response to user's operation; and   a console configured to register multiple radiographing order information items each including information indicating which of the multiple radiographic imaging apparatuses is to be used for conducting radiographing, or acquire the registered multiple radiographing order information items, wherein   upon receiving the signal from one of the radiographic imaging apparatuses, the console changes specification of information on the radiographic imaging apparatus in the radiographing order information item determined for radiographing to be conducted next to information on the radiographic imaging apparatus from which the signal is received without switching the radiographing order information item to another radiographing order information item.   
     
     
         2 . The radiographic imaging system according to  claim 1 , wherein the console changes specification of information on the radiographic imaging apparatus in the radiographing order information item determined for radiographing to be conducted next to the information on the radiographic imaging apparatus from which the signal is received, and at the same time, changes specification of information on the radiographic imaging apparatus in another radiographing order information item specifying information on the radiographic imaging apparatus before the change among the radiographing order information items for which radiographing has not been conducted to the information on the radiographic imaging apparatus from which the signal is received. 
     
     
         3 . The radiographic imaging system according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the console changes specification of information on the radiographic imaging apparatus in the radiographing order information item determined for radiographing to be conducted next to the information on the radiographic imaging apparatus from which the signal is received, and when another radiographing order information item specifying information on the radiographic imaging apparatus before the change is present among the radiographing order information items for which radiographing has not been conducted, the console makes an informing unit announce the presence of the radiographing order information item, and   when predetermined operation is conducted by the user or when predetermined cancellation operation has not been conducted by the user within a predetermined period of time after the announcement, the console changes the specification of the information on the radiographic imaging apparatus in the other radiographing order information item to the information on the radiographic imaging apparatus from which the signal is received.   
     
     
         4 . The radiographic imaging system according to  claim 1 , wherein
 when second operation in a manner different from that of the operation is conducted by the user, each of the radiographic imaging apparatuses transmits a second signal different from the signal, and   when the second signal is received from one of the radiographic imaging apparatuses, the console changes the radiographing order information item determined for radiographing to be conducted next to the radiographing order information item specifying information on the radiographic imaging apparatus from which the second signal is received among the radiographing order information items for which radiographing has not been conducted.   
     
     
         5 . The radiographic imaging system according to claim wherein
 when second operation in a manner different from that of the operation is conducted by the user, each of the radiographic imaging apparatuses transmits a second signal different from the signal,   when the second signal is received from one of the radiographic imaging apparatuses, the console makes an informing unit announce that the radiographing order information item determined for radiographing to be conducted next is changed to the radiographing order information item specifying the information on the radiographic imaging apparatus from which the second signal is received among the radiographing order information items for which radiographing has not been conducted, and   when predetermined operation is conducted by the user or when predetermined cancellation operation has not been conducted by the user within a predetermined period of time after the announcement, the console conducts the change.   
     
     
         6 . The radiographic imaging system according to  claim 3 , wherein the informing unit is a portable terminal carried by the user,
 when the predetermined operation or the predetermined cancellation operation is conducted on the portable terminal by the user, the portable terminal transmits a signal indicating that the predetermined operation has been conducted or a signal indicating that the predetermined cancellation operation has been conducted to the console, and   when the signal indicating that the predetermined operation has been conducted is received from the portable terminal, the console determines that the predetermined operation has been conducted by the user, or when the signal indicating that the predetermined cancellation operation has been conducted within a predetermined period of time is received from the portable terminal, the console determines that the predetermined cancellation operation has been conducted by the user within a predetermined period of time.