X-ray exposure report system, medical apparatus, and examination protocol distribution system

• US 20050209888A1
• Filed: 03/04/2005
• Published: 09/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.), Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Miyauchi, Akihiro, Teshima, Fumiaki, Takada, Yoichi, Ikeda, Satoshi, Oowaki, Naoki
• Granted Patent: US 8,175,894 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/542 involving control of exposure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/545 involving automatic set-up of acquisition parameters
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/566 involving communication between diagnostic systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

A radiation report system includes a storage unit for storing a plurality of records including an exposure dose, an examination protocol, an examination part, a patient'"'"'s age and a patient'"'"'s weight with regard to the plurality of radiation examinations using a plurality of radiation diagnosis apparatuses. The plurality of records stored in the storage unit is classified into a plurality of groups based on the examination protocol, the examination part or patient information. An exposure report is created for each group based on the plurality of records stored in the storage unit. The data of the exposure report is served with a client side terminal.

Claims

1. A radiation report system comprising:

a storage unit for storing a plurality of records including an expose dose, an examination protocol, an examination part, a patient'"'"'s age and a patient'"'"'s weight with regard to a radiation examination using at least one radiation diagnosis apparatus;

a grouping unit for classifying the plurality of records stored in the storage unit into a plurality of groups based on at least one of the examination protocol, the examination part, and the patient information;

a report creating unit for creating an expose report for each group based on the plurality of records stored in the storage unit; and

a server unit for serving data of the exposure report to a client side terminal.

2. The radiation report system according to claim 1,

wherein the record further includes an examination start time and an order number for discriminating each radiation examination.

3. The radiation report system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an exception examination detecting unit for detecting from each group a record of which the expose dose has an exception value among the plurality of records stored in the storage unit.

4. The radiation report system according to claim 3,

wherein the classified records are listed in the exposure report, and

the record of which the expose dose has the exception value is displayed in a different manner from the other records.

5. The radiation report system according to claim 3,

wherein the exception examination detecting unit determines whether or not the exception value exists by comparing the expose dose with a threshold value.

6. The radiation report system according to claim 5, further comprising:

a threshold value determining unit for determining the threshold value for each group based on the plurality of records stored in the storage unit.

7. The radiation report system according to claim 6,

wherein the threshold value determining unit updates the threshold value at a predetermined period.

8. The radiation report system according to claim 6,

wherein the threshold value determining unit determines the threshold value based on an exposure dose distribution indicating the change of the number of the records with respect to the expose dose.

9. The radiation report system according to claim 6,

wherein the determination of the threshold value and the determination of the exception value are repeated with respect to the records other than a plurality of records which is determined that the exposure dose has an exception value, for predetermined times or until a predetermined condition is satisfied.

10. The radiation report system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an exposure dose distribution creating unit for creating for each group an expose dose distribution indicating the change of the number of the records with respect to the exposure dose.

11. The radiation report system according to claim 10,

wherein the exposure dose distribution is included in the exposure report.

12. The radiation report system according to claim 1,

wherein the radiation report system is connected to the plurality of radiation diagnosis apparatuses through a network, and

the grouping unit classifies the plurality of records stored in the storage unit into a plurality of groups based on at least one of the examination protocol, the examination part and the patient information, and types of the radiation diagnosis apparatuses.

13. The radiation report system according to claim 1,

wherein the exposure dose is at least one of CTDI and DLP.

14. The radiation report system according to claim 1,

wherein the examination protocol is at least one of a TOMOGRAPHY condition, an image generating condition, a display condition, a filming condition, and an archive condition or combination of them.

15. The radiation report system according to claim 1,

wherein the radiation diagnosis apparatus is a multi-slice CT apparatus, and

the examination protocol includes the number of scan slices, a thickness of the scan slice, a thickness of a reconstruction slice, and a kind of a reconstructing algorithm.

16. A radiation diagnosis apparatus comprising:

an examination unit for carrying out a radiation examination with respect to an object to be examined;

a storage unit for storing a plurality of protocols including an exposure dose, an examination protocol, an examination part, a patient'"'"'s age and a patient'"'"'s weight with regard to the radiation examination;

a grouping unit for classifying the plurality of records stored in the storage unit into a plurality of groups based on at least one of the examination protocol, the examination part, and the patient information;

a report creating unit for creating an exposure report for each group based on the plurality of records stored in the storage unit; and

a display unit for displaying the exposure report.

17. An examination protocol distribution system comprising:

a storage unit for storing a plurality of records including an exposure dose, an examination protocol and an examination object with regard to a plurality of radiation examinations carried out by a plurality of radiation diagnosis apparatuses arranged in a plurality of hospitals;

an exception examination detecting unit for detecting the plurality of records of which the exposure dose has an exception value from the plurality of records stored in the storage unit;

a searching unit for searching from the storage unit the data of a plurality of examination protocols in another hospital of which the examination object is the same as the records of which the exposure dose has the exception value; and

a server unit for serving with a client side terminal data of the records of which the exposure dose has the exception value and the searched data of the examination protocol of another hospital.

18. The examination protocol distribution system according to claim 17,

wherein the searching unit permutates the plurality of searched examination protocols according to the exposure dose.

19. The examination protocol distribution system according to claim 17,

wherein the storage unit stores data of a plurality of recommendation examination protocols;

the searching unit searches the examination protocols of another hospital and the recommendation examination protocols; and

the server unit transmits to the client side terminal the searched recommendation examination protocols together with data of the record of which the exposure dose has the exception value and data of the searched examination protocols of another hospital.

20. The examination protocol distribution system according to claim 17, further comprising:

a report creating unit for creating for each hospital a report including a list of the examination protocols and the exposure doses.

21. The examination protocol distribution system according to claim 17,

wherein the data of the searched examination protocols of another hospital is served with the client side terminal together with sample image data corresponding to the searched examination protocols of another hospital.

22. The examination protocol distribution system according to claim 17, further comprising:

a simulation unit for performing an examination simulation according to the examination protocol designated through the client side terminal.