Patent ID: 7680247

Claim:
A combination radiography and fluoroscopy system, comprising: a radiation generator operable to generate a beam of radiation, said radiation generator being operable to generate at least one of radiograph radiation and fluoroscopy radiation; a radiation receiver disposed in a path of said beam and operable to generate a radiation detector signal from radiation received by said radiation receiver; and a computer system connected to receive said radiation detector signal from said radiation receiver, said computer system being operable to process either radiography radiation detector signals or fluoroscopy radiation detector signals, said computer system including a first signal path for processing radiographic radiation detector signals as radiographic image signals and a second signal path for processing fluoroscopic radiation detector signals as fluoroscopic image signals, said first and second signal paths including a plurality of processing modules wherein at least one of said processing modules is common to and shared by both said first and second signal paths, said first signal path including first separate processing modules, and said second signal path including second separate processing modules that are distinct from said first separate processing modules.