Patent ID: 7983392

Claim:
A method, comprising: forming an imaging system network by associating a plurality of separate x-ray imaging rooms, the plurality of separate x-ray imaging rooms each comprising at least one x-ray apparatus; identifying a first plurality of portable digital radiography receiver panels; identifying a second plurality of portable digital radiography receiver panels; exposing a label of a set of labels against one or more surfaces of the first plurality of digital radiography receiver panels and the second plurality of digital radiography receiver panels, wherein the label is selectable as a member of the set of labels and a member of at least one of a plurality of subsets of the set of labels, wherein each label in the set of labels has a unique label marking; remotely establishing at a control console, a first designation between a first subset of the labels, the first plurality of portable digital radiography receiver panels and a first x-ray imaging room, remotely establishing at the control console, a second designation between a second subset of the labels, the second plurality of portable digital radiography receiver panels and a second x-ray imaging room, and storing the at least first and second designations in a network-accessible memory; and providing the at least first and second designations to an imaging apparatus at the first and the second x-ray imaging rooms, respectively.