Patent ID: 7197529

Claim:
A radiographic imaging system, comprising: a plurality of controllers, each of which is adapted to register a photographing order for a subject and to receive image data, and each of which includes an image-display section to display the received image data; a plurality of radiation-image reading apparatuses, at least a plurality of which generate image data from respective radiation images stored in respective radiation-image storing mediums, in accordance with one said photographing order for a target patient from one of the controllers; and a network to link the plurality of controllers and the plurality of radiation-image reading apparatuses to each other; wherein the controller that has registered the one said photographing order for the target patient is specified, and each of the radiation-image reading apparatuses that have generated image data in accordance with the one said order transmit the generated image data of the target patient to the specified controller through the network so that the specified controller displays the image data of the target patient; and wherein the plurality of controllers are prioritized in advance, and when the generated image data cannot be transmitted to the specified controller, the radiation-image reading apparatuses transmit the generated image data to a given one of the controllers having a highest priority among the controllers able to receive the image data among the plurality of controllers.