Patent ID: 8065686

Claim:
A method of logging and storing of a sequence of X-ray image frame data acquired by an X-ray imaging system, said method comprising: storing intended processing parameters for the X-ray image frame data before acquiring and storing the sequence of X-ray image frame data; acquiring and storing the sequence of X-ray image frame data; recording log data into a log file, in real time, said log data indicating a cumulative number of image frames stored, the recording being performed upon completion of storing each individual image frame of a sequence of X-ray image frames; and upon completion of the acquiring and storing of the sequence of X-ray image frame data, deleting the log file, wherein the presence of the log file upon a power-up of the X-ray imaging tab system indicates that the X-ray imaging system is powering up from a system failure that happened during an X-ray image frame data acquisition and storing session.