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Medical imaging apparatus with optimized operation

  • US 10,429,457 B2
  • Filed: 06/11/2015
  • Issued: 10/01/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for operating a medical imaging system that is situated in an examination room, said method comprising:

  • providing detected information to a control processor of the medical imaging system, after detecting that image data of a patient are to be acquired by operation of the medical imaging system;

    in said control processor, selecting an examination sequence, as a selected examination sequence that is dependent on the detected information, from among a plurality of stored predetermined examination sequences, whereineach of said plurality of stored predetermined examination sequences comprising a plurality of predetermined examination steps consisting of a first category of steps that are to be performed by said medical imaging system and a second category of steps that involve a manual action that is to be performed by an operator of the medical imaging system on an object other than said control processor that is in said examination room;

    generating control signals for said first category of steps and emitting said control signals to the medical imaging system in order to operate the medical imaging system so as to execute said selected examination sequence;

    in said control processor, after beginning execution of the selected examination sequence, when the selected examination sequence is ongoing, detecting a current examination step in the ongoing selected examination sequence in which the medical imaging system is currently operating;

    in said control processor, consulting said ongoing selected examination sequence in order to identify that a next predetermined step in the ongoing selected examination sequence is in said second category of steps, said next predetermined step being required by said ongoing selected examination sequence to immediately follow the detected current examination step in the ongoing selected examination sequence;

    in said control processor, when it is determined that said next predetermined step is in said second category of steps, generating step information that represents said manual action to be performed in said next predetermined step; and

    in said control processor, generating projector control signals from said step information and emitting said projector control signals from said control processor to an image projector in order to operate said image projector so as to project an image, corresponding to said step information, on a projection surface to inform said operator of the manual action that must be performed in said next predetermined step.

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