Patent ID: 6128400
Filing Date: 2000-10-03
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
Digital medical imaging unit for automatically editing, on a page of an editing medium, radiographic images recorded on first recording media, comprising:(a) an entry means for unequivocally codifying information relating to a given patient (Id),(b) a device for reading each first recording medium so as to obtain a digital radiographic image of the information carried by the first recording medium,(c) a device for identifying each first recording medium introduced into the reading device,(d) a correlation means for unequivocally associating each first recording medium with a given patient,(e) a unit for processing the digital radiographic images,(f) an editing means designed to reproduce, on an editing medium, at least one digital image modified by the processing unit, characterized in that it comprises:(g) a means of entering an item of editing information in order, before the reading of a first recording medium containing a radiographic image, to associate with one and the same page of an editing medium a plurality of first recording media with a view to editing several radiographic images of a given patent on one and the same page of an editing medium,(h) a counter of processed images (Ncass(Id)) so as to edit the plurality of digital radiographic images associated with one and the same page of the editing medium only after receipt of the number of images corresponding to the plurality of radiographic images to be edited and(i) a time counter with a maximum value Tmax for triggering said editing means to edit images when images relating to said given patient have not been received for a time period Tmax.