JP2005348928A - Medical image photographing system and medical terminal used for it - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medical image photographing system which informs an operator of the occurrence of a fault without interrupting operation even in the middle of urgent operation in an medical instrument, and which displays the content of the fault and a solving procedure for solving the fault. <P>SOLUTION: The medical image photographic system is provided with: a server 40 which coordinates and stores an error code outputted in occurrence of the fault in a plurality of apparatuses to be supported, fault information and fault solving procedure information and detects the occurrence of the fault based on the error code outputted from an apparatus 10a to be supported; and a medical terminal 50a which requests fault occurrence information to the server to display an indicator based on the fault occurrence information, request the fault information to the server to display the content of the fault based on the fault information, and requires the fault solving procedure information to the server to display the procedure for solving the fault based on the fault solving procedure information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention is used in a medical image photographing system that displays or outputs a medical diagnostic image by processing image data obtained by photographing for diagnostic purposes such as radiography, and such a medical image photographing system. The present invention relates to a medical terminal.

  Conventionally, imaging methods using radiation (X-rays, α-rays, β-rays, γ-rays, electron beams, ultraviolet rays, etc.) have been used in various fields, and especially in the medical field, it is the most important for diagnosis. It has become one of the means. Since the first X-ray photography was realized, the X-ray photography method has been improved many times, and at present, a method combining a fluorescent screen and an X-ray film has become mainstream. On the other hand, in recent years, various digitized apparatuses such as X-ray CT, ultrasound, and MRI have been put into practical use, and the construction of diagnostic information processing systems and the like in hospitals is being promoted. Much research has been done to digitize X-ray images, but a radiographic method using a stimulable phosphor has been established and is attracting attention as a replacement for conventional X-ray photography.

  A stimulable phosphor (storable phosphor) is a part of its radiation energy that is stored when irradiated with radiation. After that, when it is irradiated with excitation light such as visible light, it emits light according to the stored energy. It has been known for a long time. A radiographic method using this is to capture and record a radiographic image of a subject such as a human body on a sheet coated with a photostimulable phosphor using an image taking device, and use the image reading device to capture the photostimulable fluorescence. When the body sheet is scanned with excitation light such as laser light, stimulated emission light is generated. Image data is obtained by photoelectrically reading this light. Furthermore, after appropriately processing this image data using an image processing apparatus, the image data can be output to a display such as a CRT, or printed on a film by a laser printer or the like to display a radiation image as a visible image.

  Such a radiographic method has performance comparable to that of a conventional X-ray photography method in terms of imaging sensitivity and image quality. For example, compared with the conventional X-ray photography method, the exposure area is extremely wide, and the response of the photostimulated light to the exposure amount is almost proportional over the entire exposure area. For this reason, no matter what radiation dose the subject is photographed, it is possible to capture the emission region where the image exists and normalize it into a digital signal without excess or deficiency. Further, by combining the signal obtained in this way with an appropriate image processing method such as normalization or frequency processing, it is possible to provide a good quality image constantly under various photographing conditions. Furthermore, since the digitized image information is obtained directly, it is possible not only to store a large amount of data for a long period of time without causing deterioration in image quality, but also to develop into a medical diagnosis information system. Become.

  By the way, in a radiography apparatus, CT apparatus, MRI apparatus, etc., a failure may occur due to various causes, and the apparatus may not operate normally. In such a case, in order to quickly eliminate the failure, failure information indicating what failure has occurred in which device is displayed on the medical terminal.

  As a related technique, the following Patent Document 1 discloses to a user of an industrial process control system operating in a client-server distributed system environment regardless of a window display state by an application program on the terminal of the user. An abnormal state display method for displaying that an unresolved abnormal state exists is disclosed. According to this display method, an abnormal state of an industrial process is detected, a warning event box accompanied by a mode transition is displayed on the display corresponding to the abnormal state, and at least one warning corresponding to the abnormal state is unresolved While it continues to exist in the state, it generates an unresolved warning display that is displayed in the application window that is displayed in the largest area on the display. As a result, as soon as a warning event is detected, the display of the warning event is provided to the user in the form of visible information, and while there is a warning event of unresolved information, the indication to that effect is displayed in the form of visible information. Can continue to provide to users.

  However, if an abnormal condition is detected, a warning event box will be displayed on the display, and you will interact with other windows displayed on the display unless you perform operations such as “view” or “cancel”. Therefore, even in the middle of an urgent operation in a medical device, there is a problem that the operation must be interrupted and an operation such as “cancel” must be performed.

  Patent Document 2 below discloses a material sending apparatus that can notify necessary error information for each operation terminal. This material sending apparatus is configured by connecting each server for executing various processes related to material sending and a client (operation terminal) via a network, and any of error detection means provided in the client If an error notification is generated by detecting an error in the process, an error notification means provided in the server receives the error notification, generates an error occurrence notification indicating at least the content of the error and the error occurrence source, and notifies Send an error notification to clients that need On the client side that has received the error occurrence notification, the error display means notifies the receipt of the error occurrence notification and displays the contents of the received error occurrence notification on the screen. Thus, necessary error information can be notified for each client.

However, if the operator who confirms the error information has little prior knowledge of the system, check the error information, check the instruction manual and check the procedure for solving the failure causing the error, Since it is necessary to make an inquiry to a service company that manages the system, there is a problem that it is difficult to quickly resolve the failure.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-210478 (pages 1, 2, 7 and FIG. 1) JP 2002-14880 (pages 1, 2, 10 and FIG. 6)

  Therefore, in view of the above points, the present invention is to notify the operator of the occurrence of a failure without interrupting the operation even in the middle of an operation requiring an emergency in a medical device, and further to solve the content of the failure and the failure. An object of the present invention is to provide a medical image photographing system capable of displaying a resolution procedure. It is another object of the present invention to provide a medical terminal used in such a medical image photographing system.

  In order to solve the above problems, a medical image photographing system according to the present invention is a medical image photographing system configured by connecting a support target device, a server, and a medical terminal via a network, and includes at least one medical image photographing system. Stores the error code that is output when a failure occurs in the supported device, the failure information related to the content of the failure, and the failure resolution procedure information related to the procedure for solving the failure in association with each other. A server that detects the occurrence of a failure in a supported device based on an error code output from the device, and displays a medical image on a display unit based on image data obtained by imaging for diagnostic purposes. Request failure information on whether or not a failure has occurred When a failure occurs in the device, an indicator is displayed on the display unit based on the failure occurrence information received from the server, the failure information is requested from the server according to an operator instruction, and the failure information received from the server is used. The fault details are displayed on the display unit, the fault resolution procedure information is requested from the server according to the operator's instruction, and the procedure for solving the fault is displayed on the display unit based on the fault resolution procedure information received from the server. And a medical terminal.

  A medical terminal according to the present invention is a medical terminal connected to a support target device and a server via a network, and displays a medical image based on image data obtained by imaging for diagnostic purposes. And a server that requests failure occurrence information related to whether or not a failure has occurred in the supported device, and displays a failure based on the failure occurrence information received from the server when a failure has occurred in the supported device. A fault information processing means for displaying fault information on the display unit based on fault information received from the server based on fault information received from the server according to the operator's instructions In accordance with the operator's instructions, the server requests failure resolution procedure information about the procedure for solving the failure from the server and receives it from the server. Based on the failure solved procedure information, and a resolving procedure processing means for displaying on the display unit a procedure for resolving the fault.

  According to the present invention, when a failure occurs in the support target device, the indicator is displayed on the display unit based on the failure occurrence information received from the server, and the failure information and / or the failure resolution procedure is performed according to the operator's instruction. By requesting information from the server, it is possible to notify the operator of the occurrence of a failure without interrupting the operation even in the middle of an operation requiring urgent medical equipment. It is possible to display.

Hereinafter, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. The same constituent elements are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of a medical image photographing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, this medical image photographing system has a plurality of photographing modalities (imaging devices) 10 a, 10 b,. Is connected to a plurality of medical terminals (client terminals) 50a, 50b,... Installed corresponding to each imaging modality via a LAN (local area network). It is constituted by being done.

  Here, as imaging modalities, for example, radiation (X-rays, α-rays, β-rays, γ-rays, electron beams, ultraviolet rays, etc.) imaging devices 10a, 10b,..., CT (computed tomography) And devices 20a, 20b,... And MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) devices 30a, 30b,.

  The server 40 may be an image processing apparatus that performs image processing on image data obtained by photographing using these photographing modalities, or is an image server that is used to store image data and the like. Also good. Further, the medical terminals 50a, 50b,... May be medical image display terminals that display medical images captured using the respective imaging modalities, or imaging control terminals that control the respective imaging modalities. It may be a (console) or an electronic medical record management terminal (workstation) that records the contents of diagnosis and treatment as medical data on a recording medium.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing in detail the configuration of a part of the medical image photographing system shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, the radiation imaging apparatus 10 a includes a radiation imaging apparatus 110 that records a radiation image on a recording sheet (stimulable phosphor sheet) 1 by irradiating a subject with radiation and performing imaging. And a radiation image reading device 120 that photoelectrically reads information such as a radiation image recorded on the recording sheet 1 to generate image data.

  The server 40 receives image data from the radiation image reading device 120 and performs various processes. When a failure occurs in an imaging modality such as the radiation imaging device 10a or an attached device such as a printer or a DVD drive, Based on the error code output from the radiation imaging apparatus 10a or the like, the medical terminal 50a or the like is supported in order to eliminate the obstacle. The medical terminal 50a receives image data from the server 40 and displays or outputs an image.

  The radiographic imaging apparatus 110 includes an imaging position raising / lowering mechanism 11 that raises and lowers the imaging position of the subject by moving the position of the recording sheet 1 up and down, an imaging table 12 that determines the position of the subject's legs, A radiation generator 13 for irradiating the examiner, an imaging control unit 14 for controlling the radiation generator 13 and the like according to given imaging conditions, and a failure in each part of the radiation image capturing apparatus 110 are detected. And a fault detection unit 15 that outputs a signal indicating that the fault has been resolved when it is detected that the fault has been eliminated in each part of the radiation imaging apparatus 110, and various commands and And an input unit 16 used for inputting photographing conditions. Various commands and shooting conditions may be input to the shooting control unit 14 via the LAN.

  A recording sheet 1 used for radiography is coated with a stimulable phosphor material, and information on an object is recorded by irradiation with radiation. The subject is radiographed under predetermined imaging conditions, and the radiographic image is recorded on the recording sheet 1. After imaging, the recording sheet 1 is set at a predetermined position of the radiation image reading device 120.

  The radiation image reading device 120 scans the surface of the recording sheet 1 set at a predetermined position using a light beam emitted from the laser light source 21 and passed through the light scanning unit 22. By this scanning, a light beam is irradiated onto the recording sheet 1, and an amount of stimulated emission light corresponding to the radiation image information accumulated and recorded is generated from the portion irradiated with the light beam. The stimulated emission light is photoelectrically detected by a photomultiplier (photomultiplier tube) 23, output as an analog signal, amplified by an amplifier 24, and digitized by an A / D converter 25. The image data generated in this way is input from the reading control unit 26 to the server 40 via the LAN. The reading control unit 26 controls each unit of the radiation image reading device 120. Further, when the failure detection unit 27 detects a failure in each part of the radiation image reading device 120, the failure detection unit 27 outputs an error code corresponding to the failure and detects that the failure in each part of the radiation image reading device 120 has been resolved. Information indicating that the failure has been resolved.

  The server 40 includes an input unit 41 that is used for inputting various commands, a display unit 42 that displays an operation screen, a printer 43, and a processing unit 80. The processing unit 80 performs image processing on the image data received from the radiation image reading device 120. The processing unit 80 also outputs an error code that is output when a failure occurs in a plurality of supported devices, failure information that indicates details of the failure, and a failure elimination procedure that represents a procedure for solving the failure. The information is associated with each other and stored in the failure database. Based on the error code input from any one of the supported devices, the corresponding medical terminal receives the failure occurrence information, the failure information and / or the failure resolution procedure. Provide information and.

  The medical terminal 50a includes an input unit 51 that is used to input settings for various commands and display formats, a display unit 52 that displays medical images, a printer 53 that prints medical images on a film, and the like. And a processing unit 90. The processing unit 90 displays a medical image on the display unit 52, causes the printer 53 to print a medical image, receives from the server 40 failure occurrence information regarding whether or not a failure has occurred, When failure occurs, failure information and / or failure resolution procedure information is received and an indicator indicating that a failure has occurred is displayed on the display unit 52, or the failure content and / or failure is resolved. Display the procedure to do.

  In the present embodiment, the processing unit 90 of the medical terminal 50a periodically requests the server 40 for failure occurrence information regarding whether or not a failure has occurred in the radiation imaging apparatus 10a. When a failure has occurred in the radiation imaging apparatus 10a, the processing unit 90 does not disturb an operation by the operator based on the failure occurrence information received from the server 40, indicating that a failure has occurred. As shown in FIG. Accordingly, even in an emergency, the operator can be surely notified of the occurrence of a failure without interrupting operations such as image confirmation by the operator.

  The processing unit 90 requests the server 40 for failure information that represents details of the failure when the operator instructs display of the failure content, and displays the failure content based on the failure information received from the server 40. The information is displayed on the part 52.

  Further, when the operator who has confirmed the content of the failure instructs the display of the failure resolution procedure, the processing unit 90 requests the server 40 for failure resolution procedure information indicating the procedure for solving the failure, and has received from the server 40 The failure resolution procedure is displayed on the display unit 52 based on the failure resolution procedure information. As a result, it is possible to provide support for eliminating the failure.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of the server shown in FIG. The processing unit 80 includes a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as a CPU) 81, a memory 82 that temporarily stores input image data and the like, a hard disk 83 as a recording medium, a hard disk control unit 84, and a network interface 85. And an interface 86. These portions 81 to 85 are connected to each other via a bus line BL1.

  The CPU 81 is connected to the radiation imaging apparatus 10a and the medical terminal 50a through the network interface 85 and the LAN. Through the interface 86, the input unit 41 such as a keyboard and a mouse, and a display unit such as a CRT display. 42 and the printer 43. The hard disk 83 stores software (control program) for causing the CPU 81 to perform an operation, a failure database, an error code management table and a consumable database, which will be described later. In addition to the built-in hard disk 83, an external hard disk, flexible disk, MO, MT, RAM, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or the like can be used as the recording medium.

Next, functional blocks 81a to 81d configured by the CPU 81 and software will be described.
The image processing unit 81a performs necessary image processing on the image data received from the radiation image reading device 120. The image data that has been subjected to image processing is transmitted to the medical terminal 50a.

  The failure detection unit 81b receives an error code transmitted from a support target device such as the radiation imaging device 10a, and receives a signal indicating that the failure has been resolved from the radiation imaging device 10a, the medical terminal 50a, or the like. . On the other hand, the failure detection unit 81b diagnoses whether or not the packet has reached the communication destination in the network based on the communication status with the devices to be supported for each predetermined period. Use a command or program such as

  Further, the failure detection unit 81b performs self-diagnosis of the server 40 every predetermined period, and also includes the number of shots of the recording sheet 1 stored in the consumables database recorded in the hard disk 83, the capacity of the hard disk 83, and the like. Based on the above, it detects consumables that are near the limit of use. For example, when there are a plurality of recording sheets, the failure detection unit 81b identifies the recording sheet by unique barcode information attached to the recording sheet, and counts the number of shots of each recording sheet. By storing the counted number of shots in the consumable database in correspondence with the barcode information, the use limit of each recording sheet can be detected based on the barcode information and the number of shots.

  The failure detection unit 81b identifies the error code received from the radiation imaging apparatus 10a, the error code for identifying the failure detected by confirming the communication status, and the failure detected by performing self-diagnosis. An error code for identifying a consumable that has reached the limit of use and an error code for identifying a device in which a failure has occurred are stored in the error code management table. These pieces of information are used as failure occurrence information regarding whether or not a failure has occurred.

  On the other hand, the failure detection unit 81b changes the failure occurrence information when a signal indicating that the failure has been resolved is received from the radiation imaging apparatus 10a or the medical terminal 50a. To change the failure occurrence information, add a flag indicating that the failure has been resolved to the corresponding failure occurrence information in the error code management table, or delete the corresponding error code from the error code management table. Or a method of recording the fault-resolved table on the hard disk 83, deleting the corresponding error code from the error code management table, and storing the corresponding error code in the fault-resolved table, etc. It is done.

  The failure information providing unit 81c relates to the support target device specified by the failure occurrence information request signal from the error code management table recorded in the hard disk 83 in response to the failure occurrence information request signal received from the medical terminal 50a. An error code is searched, and failure occurrence information relating to whether or not a failure has occurred in the supported device is generated based on the search result and returned to the supported device.

  For example, when a failure has occurred in the radiation imaging apparatus 10a, the failure information providing unit 81c generates indicator image data for displaying an indicator indicating that a failure has occurred in the radiation imaging apparatus 10a. The indicator image data is returned to the medical terminal 50a. Here, the indicator refers to a mark displayed at the edge of the screen on the display unit of the medical terminal. That is, the indicator is displayed on the display unit without interfering with the operation performed by the operator, and can alert the operator. The indicator may be displayed only when a failure occurs, or may be displayed constantly and the color and display method may be changed when a failure occurs. The failure information providing unit 81c may return failure occurrence information indicating that a failure has occurred to the medical terminal 50a, and generate indicator image data in the medical terminal 50a.

  In addition, when the failure information providing unit 81c receives a failure information request signal for requesting failure information regarding the content of the failure in the radiation imaging apparatus 10a from the medical terminal 50a, the failure information providing unit 81c The corresponding failure information is searched, and the failure information is returned to the medical terminal 50a.

  Furthermore, when the failure resolution procedure information providing unit 81d receives a failure resolution procedure information request signal for requesting failure resolution procedure information related to the procedure for solving the failure in the radiation imaging apparatus 10a from the medical terminal 50a, Based on the resolution procedure information request signal, the corresponding fault resolution procedure information is searched in the fault database, and the fault resolution procedure information is returned to the medical terminal 50a. The failure information providing unit 81c and the failure solving procedure information providing unit 81d may be provided for each supported device to be connected.

  FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of the medical terminal 50a shown in FIG. The processing unit 90 includes a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as a CPU) 91, a memory 92 that temporarily stores input image data and the like, a hard disk 93 as a recording medium, a hard disk control unit 94, and a network interface 95. And an interface 96. These portions 91 to 95 are connected to each other via a bus line BL2.

  The CPU 91 is connected to the radiation imaging apparatus 10a and the server 40 shown in FIG. 2 via a network interface 95 and a LAN, and via an interface 96, an input unit 51 such as a keyboard and a mouse, a CRT display, etc. The display unit 52 and the printer 53 are connected. The hard disk 93 stores software (control program) for causing the CPU 91 to perform an operation. In addition to the built-in hard disk 93, an external hard disk, flexible disk, MO, MT, RAM, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or the like can be used as the recording medium.

Next, functional blocks 91a to 91e configured by the CPU 91 and software (program) will be described.
The image receiving unit 91 a receives image data from the server 40. The image data is supplied from the output unit 91b to the display unit 52 via the interface 96, and an image is displayed on the display unit 52, and the image is confirmed by the operator. The image data is recorded on the hard disk 93 under the control of the hard disk control unit 94.

  The failure information processing unit 91c transmits a failure occurrence information request signal to the server 40 every predetermined period in order to inquire about the presence or absence of a failure in the corresponding support target device. For this purpose, the time measuring unit 91d measures time by counting clock signals for time measurement.

  When the indicator image data is returned from the server 40 to the medical terminal 50a in response to the failure occurrence information request signal, the failure information processing unit 91c displays the indicator image data from the output unit 91b via the interface 96. To supply. As a result, as shown in FIG. 5, the display screen 100 including the indicator 101 indicating that a failure has occurred is displayed on the display unit 52, and the operator confirms that the failure has occurred by the indicator 101. The When the failure occurrence information is returned from the server 40 to the medical terminal 50a, the failure information processing unit 91c generates indicator image data based on the failure occurrence information, and the indicator image data is output to the output unit 91b. May be supplied to the display unit 52 via the interface 96.

  When the operator instructs display of failure information by clicking the indicator 101 using the input unit 51 or the like, the failure information processing unit 91c sends a failure information request signal corresponding to the clicked indicator 101 to the server 40. Send.

  When the failure information corresponding to the clicked indicator 101 is returned from the server 40 in response to the failure information request signal, the failure information processing unit 91c displays the content of the failure based on the received failure information. Display data is generated and supplied to the display unit 52 from the output unit 91b via the interface 96.

  Thereby, as shown in FIG. 6, the display screen 100 including the failure information menu 102 on which the content of the failure is displayed is displayed on the display unit 52. The failure information menu 102 is provided for each connected support target device. In addition, when a plurality of types of failure information exist at the same time, a list of failure information may be displayed, or failure information with a high priority for failure resolution may be displayed one by one.

  Further, when the operator instructs display of the failure resolution procedure information by clicking the resolution procedure display button 103 using the input unit 51, the resolution procedure processing unit 91e requests a failure resolution procedure information corresponding to the selected failure information. A signal is transmitted to the server 40. When the failure resolution procedure information corresponding to the selected failure information is returned from the server 40 in response to the failure resolution procedure information request signal, the resolution procedure processing unit 91e performs a failure based on the received failure resolution procedure information. Display data for displaying the cancellation procedure is generated and supplied from the output unit 81 b to the display unit 52 via the interface 96. As a result, a procedure for eliminating the failure is displayed on the display unit 52 and confirmed by the operator. The display contents include not only a description of the resolution procedure but also an operation screen that allows the operator to perform work for solving the fault.

  When the operator uses the input unit 51 to instruct to eliminate the failure in the supported device by confirming the procedure for solving the failure and to delete the display regarding the failure, the failure information processing unit 91c transmits to the server 40 a signal indicating that the failure has been resolved. Further, the imaging modality may detect that the failure has been eliminated by self-diagnosis and transmit a signal indicating that the failure has been eliminated to the server 40. The server 40 changes the corresponding failure occurrence information and returns indicator image data indicating that the failure has been resolved to the medical terminal 50a.

  When the failure information processing unit 91c receives the indicator image data from the server 40, the failure information processing unit 91c generates display data for displaying an indicator indicating that the failure has been resolved based on the indicator image data. The display data indicating that the failure has been eliminated is supplied from the output unit 91b to the display unit 52 via the interface 96, and the display unit 52 is notified that the indicator has been deleted or the failure has been eliminated. An indicator is displayed. As an indicator indicating that the failure has been eliminated, for example, an indicator that has returned to the display form before the failure occurred corresponds. Note that the failure information processing unit 91c and the resolution procedure processing unit 91e may be provided for each supported device to be connected.

  In this embodiment, in the medical terminal 50a, the imaging modality to be supported is set in advance, and the server 40 is requested to transmit information about the imaging modality. Thereby, in the server 40, it is not necessary to set and record information related to the imaging modality to be supported for each medical terminal, so that the setting in the server 40 can be simplified.

Next, the operation of the medical image photographing system according to this embodiment will be described.
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the medical image photographing system shown in FIG.
First, in step S1, the failure information processing unit 91c of the medical terminal 50a transmits a failure occurrence information request signal to the server 40 in order to confirm the occurrence of a failure in a predetermined support target device.

  Next, in step S2, the failure information providing unit 81c of the server 40 determines whether or not an error code related to a predetermined support target device is stored in the error code management table based on the received failure occurrence information request signal. To do. If an error code related to a predetermined supported device is stored in the error code management table, the process proceeds to step S3, and an error code related to the predetermined supported device is stored in the error code management table. If not, the process proceeds to step S5.

  When an error code related to a predetermined supported device is stored in the error code management table, in step S3, the failure information providing unit 81c of the server 40 detects an error related to the supported device stored in the error code management table. Indicator image data is generated based on the code, the device code, and the like, and returned to the medical terminal 50a.

  Next, in step S4, the failure information processing unit 91c of the medical terminal 50a displays the display screen 100 including the indicator 101 on the display unit 52 based on the received indicator image data, and the process returns to step S1.

  On the other hand, when the error code related to the predetermined support target device is not stored in the error code management table, the failure information providing unit 81c of the server 40 indicates failure occurrence information indicating that no failure has occurred in step S5. Is returned to the medical terminal 50a.

Next, in step S6, the failure information processing unit 91c of the medical terminal 50a does not display an indicator on the display unit 42 based on the received failure occurrence information, and the process returns to step S1.
In this way, the operations in steps S1, S2, S3, S4 or steps S1, S2, S5, S6 are repeated every predetermined period.

  INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention can be used in a medical image photographing system that processes image data obtained by photographing for diagnostic purposes such as radiography and displays or outputs a medical diagnostic image.

1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of a medical image photographing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing in detail a configuration of a part of the medical image photographing system shown in FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the detailed structure of the server shown in FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the detailed structure of the medical terminal 50a shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the screen containing the indicator showing that the failure has generate | occur | produced. It is a figure which shows the screen containing the failure information menu on which failure information was displayed. It is a flowchart which shows the example of operation | movement of the medical image imaging system shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

1 Recording sheet (stimulable phosphor sheet)
10a, 10b, ... Radiation imaging apparatuses 20a, 20b, ... CT apparatuses 30a, 30b, ... MRI apparatus 40 Servers 50a, 50b, ... Medical terminal 110 Radiographic imaging apparatus 11 Imaging position lifting mechanism DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 12 Imaging stand 13 Radiation generation part 14 Imaging | photography control part 15 Fault detection part 16 Input part 120 Radiation image reader 21 Laser light source 22 Optical scanning part 23 Photomultiplier (photomultiplier tube)
24 Amplifier 25 A / D Converter 26 Reading Control Unit 27 Fault Detection Unit 41, 51 Input Unit 42, 52 Display Unit 43, 53 Printer 80, 90 Processing Unit 81, 91 CPU (Central Processing Unit)
81a Image processing unit 81b Failure detection unit 81c Failure information providing unit 81d Failure solving procedure information providing unit 82, 92 Memory 83, 93 Hard disk 84, 94 Hard disk control unit 85, 95 Network interface 86, 96 Interface 91a Image receiving unit 91b Output unit 91c Fault information processing section 91d Timekeeping section 91e Resolution procedure processing section 100 Display screen 101 Indicator 102 Fault information menu 103 Resolution procedure display button

Claims (4)

A medical imaging system configured by connecting a support target device, a server, and a medical terminal via a network,
An error code that is output when a failure occurs in a plurality of supported devices, failure information about the content of the failure, and failure resolution procedure information about a procedure for solving the failure are stored in association with each other, A server that detects the occurrence of a failure in the supported device based on an error code output from the supported device;
Displaying a medical image on a display unit based on image data obtained by imaging for diagnostic purposes, requesting the server for failure occurrence information regarding whether or not a failure has occurred in the support target device, and When a failure has occurred in the apparatus, an indicator is displayed on the display unit based on the failure occurrence information received from the server, and the failure information is requested from the server according to an operator instruction and received from the server. The content of the failure is displayed on the display unit based on the failure information, the failure resolution procedure information is requested from the server according to an operator instruction, and the failure is resolved based on the failure resolution procedure information received from the server. A medical terminal for displaying the procedure on the display unit;
A medical image photographing system comprising:   The medical image photographing system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of support target devices include a medical image photographing device used for photographing for diagnostic purposes.   The medical terminal transmits a signal indicating that a failure has been resolved in the support target device to the server according to an instruction of an operator, and the server is configured to support the support target according to a signal indicating that the failure has been resolved. The medical image photographing system according to claim 1, wherein the failure occurrence information of the apparatus is changed. A medical terminal connected to a supported device and server via a network,
A display unit for displaying a medical image based on image data obtained by imaging for diagnostic purposes;
Requesting the server for failure occurrence information regarding whether or not a failure has occurred in the supported device, and displaying the failure based on the failure occurrence information received from the server when a failure has occurred in the supported device Fault information for displaying an indicator on the display unit, requesting fault information related to the fault content from the server according to an operator instruction, and displaying the fault content on the display unit based on the fault information received from the server Processing means;
In accordance with an instruction from the operator, the server requests failure resolution procedure information relating to the procedure for solving the failure, and the procedure for solving the failure based on the failure resolution procedure information received from the server is displayed on the display unit. Resolving procedure processing means to be displayed on,
A medical terminal comprising: