Method for dual image recording of medical data

• US 4,665,004 A
• Filed: 01/17/1985
• Issued: 05/12/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LaserCard Corp. (Assa Abloy AB)
• Original Assignee: Drexler Technology Corporation (Assa Abloy AB)
• Inventors: Drexler, Jerome
• Primary Examiner(s): Kittle, John E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dees, Jose G.
• Application Number:
  US06/692,788
• Time in Patent Office: 845 Days
• Field of Search: 430/12, 430/15, 430/140, 430/346, 430/966, 430/967, 430/495, 430/945, 346/76 L, 346/135.1, 369/265, 369/273, 369/275, 365/215, 354/110, 250/475.2
• US Class Current: 430/140
• CPC Class Codes: G03C 11/02 Marking or applying text
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 1/126 by photographic or thermographic registration recording apparatus for measuring instruments G01D15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/08 using markings of different kinds or more than one marking of the same kind in the same record carrier, e.g. one marking being sensed by optical and the other by magnetic means
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/14 the marking being sensed by radiation
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/25 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/003 with webs , filaments or wires, e.g. belts, spooled tapes or films of quasi-infinite extent
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/0032 for moving-picture soundtracks, i.e. cinema cameras or projectors with sound recording or reproducing means G03B31/02
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/0033 with cards or other card-like flat carriers, e.g. flat sheets of optical film
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/24 Record carriers characterised by shape, structure or physical properties, or by the selection of the material characterised by the arrangement of information on the carrier G11B7/007
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 430/146 Laser beam
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 430/167 X-ray
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 430/168 X-ray exposure process

Abstract

A laser beam records a digital representation of a medical picture and medical information on an optical data storage strip. The strip is adhered to a medium containing an eye readable picture generated from the same data, such as X-ray pictures, CAT-scan pictures, ultrasonic or NMR images. The medical information may be the image itself, a description or diagnosis related to the picture.

Claims

1. A method for recording medical data comprising,

creating an eye readable medical picture on a photographic picture storage medium by exposing and developing the medium,

disposing an optical data storage lamella in side-by-side relationship with said eye readable medical picture on said photographic picture storage medium, and

recording an identical representation of said eye readable medical picture onto said optical data storage lamella in digital form.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising recording medical information related to said medical picture onto said optical data storage lamella.

3. The method of claim 2 further defined wherein said medical information related to said medical picture is an anatomical description of said picture.

4. The method of claim 2 further defined wherein said medical information related to said medical picture is a medical diagnosis relating to said picture.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said digital representation is obtained from a digital X-ray scanner, and said medical picture is an X-ray picture.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said digital representation is obtained from a CAT scanner, and said medical picture is a CAT-scan picture.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein said digital representation is obtained from an ultrasonic scanner, and said medical picture is a ultrasonic scan picture.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said digital representation is obtained from a NMR scanner, and said medical picture is a nuclear magnetic resonance image.

9. The method of claim 2 wherein said medical information is voice information.

10. The method of claim 2 wherein said medical information is alphanumeric.

11. A method for recording medical data comprising,

disposing an optical data storage lamella on a medical photographic picture storage medium,

exposing and developing an eye readable medical picture on said photographic picture storage medium, and

recording an identical representation of said medical picture onto said optical data storage lamella in digital form.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising recording medical information related to said medical picture onto said optical data storage lamella.

13. The method of claim 12 further defined wherein said medical information related to said medical picture is an anatomical description of said picture.

14. The method of claim 12 further defined wherein said medical information related to said medical picture is a medical diagnosis relating to said picture.

15. The method of claim 11 wherein said digital image data is obtained from a digital X-ray scanner, and said medical picture is an X-ray picture.

16. The method of claim 11 wherein said digital image data is obtained from a CAT scanner, and said medical picture is a cat-scan picture.

17. The method of claim 11 wherein said digital representation is obtained from an ultrasonic scanner, and said medical picture is an ultrasonic scan picture.

18. The method of claim 11 wherein said digital representation is obtained from a NMR scanner, and said medical picture is a nuclear magnetic resonance image.

19. The method of claim 12 wherein said medical information is voice information.

20. The method of claim 12 wherein said medical information is alphanumeric.