Patent ID: 8850338

Claim:
An X-ray imaging system for selecting an anatomical image for display during a radiographic examination, the system comprising: a main image display displaying at least one anatomical image provided by an X-ray imaging system; a touch-screen display located in close proximity and substantially adjacent a patient examination bed and at a different location than said main image display and being separate from said main image display, said touch screen display and said main image display being in the same room together with said patient examination bed and said main image display being separated and more distant from said patient examination table than said touch screen display; a processing unit providing a selection of graphical directories of X-ray anatomical images for presentation of an image on said touch screen display, said graphical directories indicating a plurality of different anatomical images interchangeably displayable in full size on said main image display in response to user command; and a network configured to interface the main image display with the processing unit and configured to interface the touch-screen display with the processing unit, wherein the system is configured to display a full size X-ray anatomical image on said main image display in response to user selection of at least one image using at least one of the selection of graphical directories of X-ray anatomical images on the touch-screen display.