Patent ID: 8421024

Claim:
A cradle for use with a radiation conversion device comprising a cradle for carrying out charging of a radiation conversion device, the cradle being disposed in the vicinity of an image capturing apparatus which captures a radiation image of a patient as a subject, the radiation conversion device detecting radiation that has passed through the subject and converting the radiation into image information, the cradle further comprising: an information storage section; a charging processor for carrying out charging with respect to a battery mounted in the radiation conversion device; an information acquiring section for acquiring information that includes patient information pertaining to the patient for specifying the patient and that includes image capturing conditions when the image information of the patient is captured, from a console in which the patient information and the image capturing conditions are set; a display unit for displaying the acquired information; and an information read/write processor operative to perform the following steps: writing the patient information to the radiation conversion device before radiation image capturing, reading out the image information and at least one of the patient information and usage information of the radiation conversion device from the radiation conversion device after the radiation image capturing, and storing the read out information in the information storage section.