Patent ID: 7439996

Claim:
A medical image recording system for recording a medical image on a recording medium, comprising: an image generating apparatus system that forms image data including medical image data of a radiographed object and supplementary information; and an image recording apparatus that records the medical image based on the medical image data on the recording medium, wherein the image generating apparatus system comprises: a first communication section for communicating with the image recording apparatus; an image generating section for forming the medical image data of the radiographed object; and a first control section for controlling the image generating section to form the medical image data at a predetermined reading pitch, adding information for deciding a writing pitch to be used in recording the medical image based on the medical image data, to the supplementary information; and sending the image data to the image recording apparatus through the first communication section; and wherein the image recording apparatus comprises: a second communication section for communicating with the image generating apparatus system; an image recording section for recording an image of the image data; and a second control section for receiving the image data from the image generating apparatus system through the second communication section; calculating an interpolation magnification factor from an image of the medical image data to the image of the image data to be recorded, for each of a plurality of writing pitches based on the supplementary information; and determining the writing pitch to be used to record the image of the image data, among the plurality of writing pitches, based on the calculated interpolation magnification factor; and controlling the image recording section to record the image of the image data at the determined writing pitch.