Cushman, Darby & Cushman
Diagnostic voice instructing apparatus
 A diagnostic voice instructing apparatus has a recording/playback device including a voice recording/playback LSI and a RAM, and converts an arbitrary instruction voice to a patient, which has been input through a microphone by a user for use in a scanning operation, into a digital signal and stores the signal in corresponding one of 15 channels of the RAM, the instructing voice may be input in an arbitrary language, dialect or expression. The recording/playback device is coupled to a scan controller, which controls the scanning operation of a CT apparatus, and a host controller, which sends commands to the recording/playback device and scan controller and receives control data from the scan controller. The host controller permits an operator to prepare ID data to each patient, which includes the name, and condition, of the patient, as well as designation of the necessary instructing voice to the patient in terms of a channel quantity. When the patient ID data is read out from the host controller and supplied to the recording/playback device, and when the CT apparatus starts scanning the patient in response to a command from the scan controller, an instructing voice is read out from the channel designated by the patient ID data at the proper timing in synchronism with the scanning operation and is supplied through an amplifier to a speaker for its reproduction. 
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
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Hiromi
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