F-Term-List

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AA00
KIND OF RADIOGRAPHY SYSTEM

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. Fluoroscopy systems

. . Quick radiography

. . . Cassette types

. . Continuous radiography

. . Indirect radiography

. Special fluoroscopy systems

. . Multidirectional diagnosis systems

. . . Biplane radiography

. . . Stereoscopic radiography

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AA12

AA13

AA14

AA16

AA18

AA19

. . Tomography

. . Panoramic radiography

. . Cine radiography

. . Enlarging radiography

. DR systems

. Scanning radiography systems excluding CT

. . Slit moving systems

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. CT systems

. . X-ray CT

. Radiography by injection of contrast preparations

. Therapy planning systems

. Medical image processing or medical image control systems

. . Image reading and reproducing devices

. . . for imaging plates

. Industrial systems

. Others *

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CT SCANNING SYSTEM OR PROJECTION METHOD ONLY FOR CT

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. CT scanning

. . T-R

. . R-R

. . R-S

. . S-S

. . Continuous scanning on the same slice planes

. . Scanning on multiple slice planes

. . . Simultaneous scanning

. . . Continuous scanning

. . . . Spiral or helical scanning

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. Projection methods

. . Multi-angle projection

. . . with more than one rotation

. . . Normal and reverse rotations

. . Small angle projection

. . . Particular angles

. . Scanography; Making fluoroscopic images by CT

. . Scattered radiation projection

. Others *

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PURPOSE

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. Improving image quality

. . of spatial resolutions e.g. improving resolutions of data

. . of time resolutions e.g. achieving high frame rates

. . of density resolutions e.g. contrasts

. . removing or correcting distortion

. . removing noises e.g. improving signal-to-noise (S/N) ratios

. . . of information carrier noises e.g. scattered radiations

. . of sharpness e.g. reducing blurs

. . Uniformising image quality

. . . of multiple images

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CA13

CA15

CA16

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CA18

. . . of single images e.g. reducing density unevenness

. . removing artifacts

. Improving operability

. . facilitating handling of apparatus

. . reducing operators' fatigue

. . improving diagnostic efficiency or throughputs

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CA22

CA23

CA24

CA26

CA27

CA28

CA29

CA30

. Improving visibility

. . with indicators or the like

. . facilitating stereoscopic understanding

. . by timings of indications

. Accelerating image indication

. . of data acquisitions

. . of reconstruction operations

. . of image processing

. . of image reading

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. Improving detection efficiency

. Downsizing simplification or cost reduction

. Improving safety of subjects or operators

. . reducing exposure doses

. Improving reliability

. Improving maintainability or facilitating adjustments

. Multifunctionalisation of apparatus

. Preventing damages of the apparatus

. Accelerating or smoothing behaviours

. Preventing film or the like from light-striking

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CA50

. Preventing damages caused by environments or aging

. Others *

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REGION TO BE DIAGNOSED

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. Alimentary canals e.g. stomachs oesophagi or intestines

. Circulatory organs e.g. hearts or blood vessels

. Respiratory organs

. Heads

. Teeth including jaws

. Breasts

. Others *

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X-RAY RADIATION SYSTEM

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. Radiation sources

. . X-ray tube types

. . . Multifocal types or focal variable types

. . Electron beam scanning types

. . Radiations excluding X-rays

. . with multiple sources

. . Multiple types of polyenergetic radiations

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. Radiation filters

. Diaphragms or collimators including shutters

. . Fixed opening types including tubi

. . Variable opening types e.g. variable diaphragms

. Masks for fractionated radiography

. Masks for II

. Sights

. . performing from multiple directions

. Others *

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X-RAY DETECTING OR IMAGE-RECEIVING SECTION

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. Phosphors or fluorescent plates

. X-ray II + TV systems

. . characterised by the components

. Combinations of sensitising papers and films; Films

. Imaging plates or receptacles therefor

. Detectors for xerography

. Spot shot devices

. . characterised by the components

. Film changers

. Optical cameras

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. Scintillation detectors

. . combined with semiconductor optical elements

. Semiconductor detectors

. Gas detectors

. . Ionisation chamber types

. Array structures of detectors

. . in two-dimensions

. . Multiple arrays

. . Offset arrays

. characterised by manufacturing detectors

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EB22

EB24

EB25

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EB30

. Positioning detectors

. Collimators for detectors or the like

. Grids

. . Structures or manufacturing methods

. . Supporting or oscillating mechanisms

. Detectors for special uses

. Others *

EC00
SUPPORTING OR MOVING X-RAY SOURCE, X-RAY DETECTING OR IMAGE-RECEIVING SECTION

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. Installation systems

. . On-floor installation types

. . Ceiling suspension types

. . Movable carriage types

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. Supporting mechanisms for X-ray sources or image-receiving sections

. . Frames or stands

. . Columns

. . Linkages

. . Arms

. . . C-arms or U-arms

. . characterised by the mounting direction of X-ray tubes

EC21

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EC24

EC25

EC26

EC27

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EC29

EC30

. Moving mechanisms for X-ray sources or image-receiving sections

. . for changing the direction of X-rays incident to subjects

. . . Radiography mechanisms at oblique incidence angles

. . . Tomography mechanisms excluding CT

. . . . Circular arc tomographic mechanisms

. . . . Parallel tomographic mechanisms

. . . . Multiorbital tomographic mechanisms

. . . Pivoting or rotating mechanisms

. . for changing distances between X-ray sources and image-receiving sections

. . . between X-ray sources and tops

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. . . between tops and image-receiving sections

. . co-operatively moving X-ray sources and image-receiving sections in the axial direction of subjects' bodies

. . for changing direction of X-ray sources only

. . for retracting image-receivers to the outside of radiation fields

. . . for switching between fluoroscopic systems and radiographic systems

. . for setting the direction of multiple X-ray sources

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. Gantries only for CT

. . Scanning mechanisms

. . characterised by frame structures

. . Slip rings

. . Cooling mechanisms

. . Position adjusting mechanisms

. . . Tilting mechanisms for gantries

. . . for switching radiography regions

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. Mechanisms specially adapted for movements or safety mechanisms

. . characterised by guiding or supporting mechanisms

. . for reducing operating forces or driving forces

. . . Counterbalance types

. . . Spring types

. . Shock-absorbing mechanisms including antivibration mechanisms

. . Anti-collision mechanisms or contact detection mechanisms

. . Braking mechanisms

. . Cable processing mechanisms

. Others *

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SUPPORTING, MOVING OR FASTENING SUBJECT

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. Beds or tables

. . characterised by shapes or materials of tops

. . characterised by supporting mechanisms of beds or tops

. . characterised by moving mechanisms

. . . for raising and lowering

. . . for vertical movements

. . . for horizontal movements or turnings

. . . Rolling

. Chairs

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. Equipment for supporting or fastening

. . Supports for fastening heads e.g. head rests

. . . Cephalostats

. . Shoulder supports e.g. shoulder stoppers

. . Arm supports e.g. arm rests or arm holders

. . Steps e.g. foot rests

. . Bands

. . Ear rods

. . Baby or infant fastenings

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. Compression mechanisms

. . for abdomens

. . . Squeezing compression

. . . characterised by shapes or materials of compression cones

. Others *

EE00
ACCESSORY, PERIPHERAL DEVICE OR FACILITY

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. Operation panels

. . characterised by arrangements structures or the like of operating units

. Film viewing devices e.g. Shaukasten

. Stereoscopic viewing devices e.g. stereo viewers

. . Television images to be viewed

. Automatic developing machines

. Cameras for hard copies

. Printers

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. Radiation diagnosis rooms

. Mobile X-ray vehicles

. . Auxiliary mechanisms for mounting apparatus

. Power supply facilities

. Instruction devices for patients e.g. interphones

. Surveillance monitors

. Radiation protectors

. . Clothing

. Instruments for measuring physiques of subjects

. Contrast preparations or syringes

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. Others *

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CONTROL

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. Operation systems

. . Remote operations

. . Proximity operations

. . . Operating units integral with the apparatus

. . Controlling single devices or systems

. . Controlling multiple devices or systems

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. Objects to be controlled

. . Operative methods or modes

. . . Setting or switching conditions or modes

. . . Switching between fluoroscopy and radiography

. . X-ray-radiation systems

. . . X-ray radiation fields e.g. diaphragm openings

. . . Deflection of X-ray beams

. . . X-ray doses

. . . Exposure timings

. . . Slits or the like

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FA30

. . Detecting or image-receiving systems

. . . Openings of image-receiving sections e.g. masks

. . . Conveying films or the like

. . . Switching visual fields of II

. . . Incidence light quantities to imaging devices

. . . . with diaphragms or filters

. . . Optical distribution means e.g. mirrors or lenses

. . . Startups or the like of image pick-up tubes

. . . switching TV scanning systems

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. . . Detectors

. . Data acquiring sections

. . . Acquiring data e.g. sampling

. . Indicating or outputting sections e.g. CRT or printers

. . Devices for supporting subjects

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. Systems for producing signals for control

. . with switches or by switch operations

. . sequentially by behaviours of apparatus

. . . Preset systems including memory type programmes

. . based on comparisons between signals

. . using signals of synchronising signal sources

. . . Biological signals

. . . TV synchronising signals

. . using speech signals

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. Variables to be controlled

. . Time or points of time

. . Distances. e.g. in vertical directions

. . . in horizontal directions

. . Angles or quantities of rotations including the direction of rotations

. . Speed or angular speed

. . Pressure or force

. . Temperatures or humidity

. . Electric currents or voltages

. Others *

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INDICATING BEHAVIOUR OR CONDITION

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. Travelled distances

. Angles of rotations

. Distances between X-ray sources and image-receiving sections or between X-ray sources and tops

. Shredding planes

. Depths

. Number of films IP or the like

. Conveying states of films IP or the like

. Radiography modes

. Radiographic conditions

. Identification (ID)

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FB12

FB20

. Abnormal conditions

. . involving alarms

. Others *

FC00
DATA ACQUISITION

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. Constitutions of data acquisition circuits

. . Gain adjustment circuits

. . Channel switching circuits

. . Integration circuits

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. Correction or calibration

. . Relativisation of measuring systems by reference substances

. . . performed simultaneously with radiography of subjects

. . using water bags wedges or the like

. . using detectors for calibrations

. . for setting correction coefficients or functions

. . correcting characteristics of detection systems

. . . of sensitivities

. . . of offsets

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. . of temperatures

. . of radiation intensities

. . of beam hardening e.g. hardening of radiation qualities

. . of body motions

. . of scattered radiations

. . of positional deviations

. . . of centres of rotations

. Others *

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BASIC DATA PROCESSING

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. Digitalisation e.g. sampling or quantising

. Logarithmic conversions

. Normalisations or statistical processing

. Orthogonal transformations or inverse transformations thereof

. Filtering

. . Nonlinear filters

. Interpolation or extrapolation methods

. Functional approximations

. Threshold-value processing

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. Constant operations; Operations between data

. . Weighting

. . Differential processing excluding differentials between images

. Others *

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IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ONLY FOR CT

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. Reconstruction techniques

. . Matrix methods

. . Successive approximation methods

. . Simple back projection methods

. . One-dimensional and two-dimensional Fourier transform methods

. . Filtered back projection methods

. . . One-dimensional Fourier transform methods

. . . Convolution or convolution integral methods

. . Analogue reconstruction methods

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. Operation processing

. . of projection data

. . . selecting or dividing data

. . . making composite data or secondary data

. . Fan-parallel data conversions

. . Fan beam reconstruction

. . Fourier transform operations

. . selecting or operating filter functions

. . selecting or operating convolution functions

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FE24

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FE27

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. . Back projection operations

. . . setting back projection regions

. . characterised by the procedures of operation execution

. . . High-speed operation systems

. . . . Processing in parallel

. . . . Pipeline processing

. Others *

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IMAGE PROCESSING

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. for correcting deterioration of image quality

. . correcting distortion

. . removing noises

. . restoring blurred images

. for correcting uniformity

. . Smoothing

. Enhancement processing

. . Gradation conversion or greyscale conversion

. . of particular components including suppressions

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FF12

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FF15

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FF20

. Geometrical transformation processing

. . by movements e.g. translations or rotations

. . by enlarging or reducing

. for detecting objects e.g. clipping

. . Profiles

. . Lesioned sections

. for detecting feature value

. . by density value statistics

. . characterised by shapes

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FF25

FF27

FF28

FF29

FF30

. for measuring or analysing physical quantities based on images

. . Distances or lengths

. . Areas or volumes

. . Dynamic analyses

. . Bone mineral contents

. for setting regions

. . Regions of interest (ROI)

. for density resolutions

. . Windows e.g. widths or levels

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FF32

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FF38

. for multiple images

. . Multi-frames

. . between images

. . . Subtractions

. . . Screen composition

. . . . adding or integrating images

. . . Positioning

. . . making images continuous e.g. smoothing

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FF42

FF43

FF44

FF45

FF46

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FF50

. for making special images

. . Three-dimensional images

. . . indicating images with shadows

. . . indicating contours

. . converting cross-sections

. . indicating desired cross-section

. . . curved

. . . by shifting data for digital television tomographic layers or the like

. Others *

FG00
INDICATING OR OUTPUTTING IMAGE OR THE LIKE

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. Colour indications

. Controlling luminance

. Interactive input devices e.g. light pens

. . Joysticks track balls or the like

. characterised by indicating devices

. . having multiple indicating devices

. . characterised by resolution or indication speed or the like

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FG16

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. Auxiliary indications

. . of scales

. . of markers

. . of graphs

. . of biological signals

. . of numerical values or characters

. Outputting diagnostic reports

. Indications or outputs by speeches

. Others *

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RECORDING, TRANSMITTING, OR STORING IMAGE

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. Compressing or restoring data

. Temporary storage by memories

. . corresponding to additional information

. Digital records e.g. optical discs or digital disc recorders (DDR)

. Analogue records e.g. video tape recorders (VTR)

. Transmission e.g. optical transmission or interfaces

. Image databases

. . Data access or retrieval

. Giving data identification information

. Others *

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TESTING, MAINTENANCE, OR MANAGEMENT

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. Reference settings e.g. phantoms

. . Structures or materials

. . Arrangements

. Maintenance or management

. . Simulated behaviours or testing

. . Troubleshooting

. Others *

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