Multiple modality interface for imaging systems

US6674449B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC · US

Inventors

• Seth R. Banks · Milwaukee, US
• James K. Cavanaugh · Chesterton, US
• Thomas M. Hanson · Waukesha, US
• Linda Marie Kohli · Waukesha, US
• Elizabeth A. Kuhn · Wauwatosa, US
• David Alan Littlejohn · Wales, US
• Kim M. Ruchti · Brookfield, US
• Aaron J. Schmidt · Wales, US
• William Murray Stoval, III · Draper, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 25, 1998
• Grant date: Jan 6, 2004
• Expiry date: Nov 25, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H70/60
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A universal interface apparatus for use with any of several different imaging systems for facilitating a plurality of different imaging modalities, the interface including at least function icons in a function navigation space and a workspace, each of the function icons corresponding to a process which is common among all of the imaging modalities, the interface also accessing data tables corresponding to specific workflow protocols for medical facility radiologists and/or for a medical facility in general, the tables identifying function icons and other icons for guiding a technologist through a properly orchestrated imaging process.