SYNCHRONIZATION OF CLOCKS IN AUTONOMOUS COMPONENTS OF AN MR SYSTEM AND SYNCHRONOUS EXECUTION OF COMMANDS IN THOSE COMPONENTS
First Claim
1. A method for executing commands in components of an imaging system, each of said components comprising a local clock, said method comprising the steps of:
- temporally synchronizing the respective local clocks of said components in said imaging system;
transmitting commands to the respective components and including in the respective commands a command execution time specification that specifies a point in time at which the command should be executed that includes the respective command execution time specification;
receiving the respective commands at the respective components and storing the respective received commands at the respective components, as stored commands; and
at each component, automatically retrieving and executing a stored command when a point in time at the local clock at that component coincides with the command execution time specification of the stored command.
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Abstract
In a device and a method to execute commands in components of an imaging system, in particular of a magnetic resonance tomography system, local clocks in the components are temporally synchronized, commands, including a respective command execution time specification which respectively specifies at which point in time a command should be executed, are sent to the components, the commands are received by the components, commands and command execution time specifications that are received by components are stored in these components, and a stored command is respectively executed when a time indicated by the local clock coincides with the stored command execution time specification regarding the command.
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38 Claims
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1. A method for executing commands in components of an imaging system, each of said components comprising a local clock, said method comprising the steps of:
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temporally synchronizing the respective local clocks of said components in said imaging system; transmitting commands to the respective components and including in the respective commands a command execution time specification that specifies a point in time at which the command should be executed that includes the respective command execution time specification; receiving the respective commands at the respective components and storing the respective received commands at the respective components, as stored commands; and at each component, automatically retrieving and executing a stored command when a point in time at the local clock at that component coincides with the command execution time specification of the stored command. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An imaging system comprising:
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a plurality of components that respectively control operation of respective units that collectively operate to generate a medical image, each of said components comprising a local clock, a component processor, and a memory; a computerized controller configured to temporally synchronize the respective local clocks of said components in said imaging system, by transmitting commands to the respective component processors and including in the respective commands a command execution time specification that specifies a point in time at which the command should be executed that includes the respective command execution time specification; each component processor being configured to receive the respective commands transmitted thereto and to store the respective received commands in the memory at that component, as stored commands; and each component processor being configured to automatically retrieve and execute a stored command when a point in time at the local clock at that component coincides with the command execution time specification of the stored command. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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