TRANSFER OF TREATMENT PLANNING INFORMATION USING STANDARD IMAGE TRANSFER PROTOCOLS

• US 20070238962A1
• Filed: 04/06/2007
• Published: 10/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brainlab AG
• Original Assignee: Brainlab AG
• Inventors: Hartlep, Andreas, Frielinghaus, Nits
• Application Number:
  US11/697,310
• Publication Number:
  US 20070238962A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/407
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/032 Transmission computed tomography [CT]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/037 Emission tomography
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/563 involving image data transmission via a network
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing

Abstract

A system and method for creating, generating, saving and/or exporting medical data is provided. The medical data includes image data, and the medical data conforms to an external standard, wherein additional data, not part of the external standard, is added to the image data. The additional data may be added by rendering the additional data into the image data to create new data including at least part of the original image data and at least a part of the additional data, wherein the new data conforms to the external standard.

Claims

1. A method for creating, generating, saving and/or exporting medical data that includes image data, said medical data conforming to an external standard, wherein additional data, not part of the external standard, is added to the image data, comprising rendering the additional data into the image data to create new data including at least part of the original image data and at least a part of the additional data, wherein the new data conforms to the external standard.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein rendering includes reconstructing the rendered data to conform to the external standard.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the additional data is treatment planning information.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the treatment planning information is at least one of trajectory information, surgical pathways, or labels.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the external standard is the DICOM standard.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein rendering the additional data into the image data includes at least one of changing the image data or adding the additional data to the image data.

7. A medical image generating device, comprising:

an imaging device;

a processing device operatively coupled to said imaging device; and

logic executable by said processor, said logic including

logic that obtains image data from said imaging device, wherein the image data conforms to an external standard, and

logic that renders additional image data into the image data obtained from the imaging device to generate new data including at least part of the additional image data, the new data conforming to the external standard.

8. The device according to claim 7, wherein the logic that renders additional image data includes logic that reconstructs the rendered data to conform to the external standard.

9. The device according to claim 7, wherein the additional data is treatment planning information.

10. The device according to claim 9, wherein the treatment planning information includes at least one of trajectory information, surgical pathways, or labels.

11. The device according to claim 7, wherein the external standard is the DICOM standard.

12. The device according to claim 7, wherein the logic that renders the additional data into the image data includes at least one of logic that changes the image data or logic that adds the additional data to the image data.

13. The medical image generating device according to claim 7, wherein the imaging device is at least one of a PACS system, CT scanner, MR scanner, PET scanner, or SPECT scanner.

14. A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium for creating, generating, saving and/or exporting medical data that includes image data, said medical data conforming to an external standard, wherein additional data, not part of the external standard, is added to the image data, comprising code that renders the additional data into the image data to create new data including at least part of the original image data and at least a part of the additional data, wherein the new data conforms to the external standard.