An image file control method for storing plural sets of image data wherein
each of plural sets of image data is obtained in such a way that a body
part of a patient having an ID code is radiographed with a magnification
by an absorption contrast radiography or a phase contrast radiography so
as to obtain a radiation image of the body part and the radiation image
is read with a reading sampling pitch by an image reading device so that
the image reading device outputs raw image data of the body part;
comprising step of; storing plural sets of raw image data by attaching
supplemental information to each of plural sets of raw image data,
wherein the supplemental information contains an ID code of a patient and
at least one of a set of a magnification and the reading sampling pitch
and a full size sampling pitch calculated from the set of the
magnification and the reading sampling pitch.