Patent ID: 8023620

Claim:
An x-ray system for acquiring x-ray information of a patient in accordance with a selected one of a plurality acquisition modes, comprising: x-ray components including an x-ray source and a digital flat panel detector for recording x-ray information radiographically, fluoroscopically, or Digital Fluoroscopic Radiographically based on a selected acquisition mode; an input unit for receiving x-ray system parameters, as individual parameters or as an organ program, wherein the x-ray system parameters comprise a plurality of x-ray dose, x-ray pulse duration, image zoom, image frequency, image mirroring, image rotation, and image region conforming to an acquisition mode different from the selected acquisition mode, and the selected acquisition mode from one of radiography, fluoroscopy, and Digital Fluoroscopic Radiography; a control and processing unit in communication with the input unit and the x-ray components for receiving the x-ray information from the digital flat panel detector; a converter as part of the control and processing unit for converting the x-ray system parameters from the acquisition mode different from the selected acquisition mode into suitable image chain parameters for the selected acquisition mode that control image recording and image processing based on the selected acquisition mode, the image chain parameters comprising a converter mode as a class of image chain parameters, the converter mode comprising: (a) calibration tables for the converter; (b) stored matrix variables for the image; and (c) detector parameters to control image recording by the digital flat panel detector, all based on the selected acquisition mode; and an image processing unit in communication with the control and processing unit for receiving the suitable image chain parameters and processing the x-ray information in accordance with the suitable image chain parameters; wherein the selected acquisition mode is realizable with the x-ray components in accord with the selected acquisition mode.