Patent ID: 8194823

Claim:
An X-ray image capturing and interpretation system comprising a mobile X-ray image capturing apparatus for capturing a radiation image of a subject at an image capturing site where an image is to be captured, the mobile X-ray image capturing apparatus comprising: a radiation source for applying a radiation to the subject; a mount for receiving therein a cassette having a radiation detector for detecting the applied radiation that has passed through the subject, converting the detected radiation into radiation image information and storing the radiation image information; an image memory; a transmitting and receiving terminal; and a controller for controlling said radiation source, said mount, said image memory, and said transmitting and receiving terminal; wherein said transmitting and receiving terminal serves as a mobile station and communicates with an image interpretation site through a mobile communication network; in a case where said controller detects that said radiation image information is stored in said cassette mounted in said mount, said controller transfers said radiation image information from said cassette via said mount to said image memory for storing the radiation image information therein; while said mobile X-ray image capturing apparatus is moving out of the image capturing site, said radiation image information stored in said image memory is transmitted to the image interpretation site via said transmitting and receiving terminal and said mobile communication network; and after the radiation image information is interpreted at the image interpretation site, in a case where it is judged that another radiation image of said subject needs to be captured, an image recapturing order is transmitted to said transmitting and receiving terminal of said mobile X-ray image capturing apparatus through said mobile communication network.