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SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ADAPTIVELY CONTROL CONTRAST-ENHANCED DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING PROCEDURE

  • US 20110208046A1
  • Filed: 05/05/2011
  • Published: 08/25/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a set of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computer, causes the computer to:

  • prompt a user to enter patient-specific information for a given scan patient;

    prompt a user to select a scan type;

    receive bolus tracking data for the given patient;

    provide an individualized scan protocol defining a contrast agent delivery, an x-ray dosage, and scan sequence timing, based upon the patient-specific information, the scan type, and the bolus tracking data;

    trigger commencement of a scan sequence to acquire image data from a region-of-interest (ROI), the scan sequence based on the individualized scan protocol;

    reconstruct an image from the acquired image data;

    update the x-ray dosage to an updated x-ray dosage based on the image; and

    trigger commencement of a second scan sequence to acquire image data from the ROI, the second scan sequence based on the updated x-ray dosage.

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