Medical diagnostic system

• US 20080310581A1
• Filed: 05/29/2008
• Published: 12/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Feuerlein, Ute, Nutzel, Harald
• Application Number:
  US12/155,049
• Publication Number:
  US 20080310581A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 378/4
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7445 Display arrangements, e.g. multiple display units
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/461 Displaying means of special interest
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/481 involving the use of contrast agents
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/504 for diagnosis of blood vessels, e.g. by angiography
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/50 with microprocessors or computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/502 User interfaces, e.g. screens or keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14 Infusion devices, e.g. infusing by gravity; Blood infusion; Accessories therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 33/543 Control of the operation of the MR system, e.g. setting of acquisition parameters prior to or during MR data acquisition, dynamic shimming, use of one or more scout images for scan plane prescription G01R33/546 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 33/546 Interface between the MR system and the user, e.g. for controlling the operation of the MR system or for the design of pulse sequences
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 33/5601 involving use of a contrast agent for contrast manipulation, e.g. a paramagnetic, super-paramagnetic, ferromagnetic or hyperpolarised contrast agent

Abstract

In a method for operating a medical diagnostic system including an irradiating examination machine and a contrast agent supplying machine, at least one operational parameter is assigned to the examination machine and at least one application parameter is assigned to the contrast agent supplying machine. In at least one embodiment disclosed herein, the operational parameters and the application parameters are concurrently, or even simultaneously, displayed via a display apparatus.

Claims

1. A method for operating a medical diagnostic system including an irradiating examination machine and a contrast agent supplying machine, the method comprising:

assigning at least one operational parameter to the irradiating examination machine;

assigning at least one application parameter to the contrast agent supplying machine;

concurrently displaying the at least one operational parameter and the at least one application parameter, via a display apparatus of a data processing machine operationally linked both to the irradiating examination machine and to the contrast agent supplying machine, parameter settings being visible on the display apparatus and relating to at least one of the machines being automatically changed during graphical manipulation; and

visualizing via the display apparatus, in the case of a change in at least one parameter of at least one of the irradiating examination machine and the contrast agent supplying machine, both a new setting of the at least one parameter of at least one of the irradiating examination machine and the contrast agent supplying machine and a parameter change of the other one of the irradiating examination machine and the contrast agent supplying machine.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a temporal variation in the at least one operational parameter of the irradiating examination machine and in the at least one application parameter of the contrast agent supplying machine are displayed.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the display of the temporal variation in the different parameters is carried out in diagram form.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein start times of a plurality of examination stages, to be carried out by the irradiating examination machine, are separated from one another in time and are influencable by the supply of contrast agent, are shown via the display apparatus.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein a duration of individual examination stages is shown via the display apparatus.

6. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein a temporal relationship between the setting of application parameters of the contrast agent supplying machine and the progress of the examination stages is shown via the display apparatus.

7. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the examination stages include a monitoring phase which prepares the imaging examination.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a flow and a volume of a contrast agent dispensed by the contrast agent supplying machine are displayed concurrently in graphical form via the display apparatus.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a comparison between a preset standard parameter and an application parameter actually selected for the examination is displayed via the display apparatus.

10. A medical diagnostic system to carry out the method as claimed in claim 1.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the concurrent display includes simultaneous display.

12. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein a temporal relationship between the setting of application parameters of the contrast agent supplying machine and the progress of the examination stages is shown via the display apparatus.

13. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the examination stages include a monitoring phase which prepares the imaging examination.

14. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the examination stages include a monitoring phase which prepares the imaging examination.

15. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the examination stages include a monitoring phase which prepares the imaging examination.

16. The method of claim 8, wherein the concurrent display includes simultaneous display.

17. A medical diagnostic system, comprising:

a device to assign at least one operational parameter to an irradiating examination machine;

a device to assign at least one application parameter to a contrast agent supplying machine; and

a display apparatus, operationally linked both to the irradiating examination machine and to the contrast agent supplying machine, to concurrently display the at least one operational parameter and the at least one application parameter, parameter settings being visible on the display apparatus and relating to at least one of the machines being automatically changed during graphical manipulation, and to visualize, in the case of a change in at least one parameter of at least one of the irradiating examination machine and the contrast agent supplying machine, both a new setting of the at least one parameter of at least one of the irradiating examination machine and the contrast agent supplying machine and a parameter change of the other one of the irradiating examination machine and the contrast agent supplying machine.

18. The medical diagnostic system of claim 17, wherein the concurrent display includes simultaneous display.