Patent ID: 8748839

Claim:
A radiation image capturing system, comprising: a radiation image capturing apparatus, comprising: a detection part comprising a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines which are disposed so as to intersect each other and a plurality of radiation detection elements which are two dimensionally arranged by providing each of the radiation detection elements in each of small regions defined by the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of signal lines; a scan activation unit which switches voltage to be applied to each of the scanning lines between ON voltage and OFF voltage; switch units which are respectively connected to the scanning lines and release electric charges accumulated in the radiation detection elements to the signal lines when ON voltage is applied; a reading circuit in which the electric charges released from the radiation detection elements are converted into image data and read out; a control unit which controls at least the scan activation unit and the reading circuit to perform reading processing of the image data from the radiation detection elements; and a communication unit for performing sending and receiving of signals and sending of the image data to an external apparatus; a radiation generation apparatus comprising a radiation source which emits radiation onto the radiation image capturing apparatus; and a console which communicates with the radiation image capturing apparatus; wherein the radiation image capturing apparatus switches an image capturing method between a cooperation method in which radiation image capturing is performed in cooperation with the radiation generation apparatus and a non-cooperation method in which radiation image capturing is performed without cooperation with the radiation generation apparatus, and the console switches standby time which is a time period after the radiation image capturing apparatus becomes able to perform radiation image capturing until the radiation source is allowed to emit the radiation onto the radiation image capturing apparatus between the cooperation method and the non-cooperation method.