Method for slice position planning of tomographic measurements, using statistical images

US6952097B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Oliver Schreck · Castelldefels, ES
• Mike Muller · Steinfeld (Oldenburg), DE
• Martin Harder · Koblenzer Straße, DE
• Hans-Peter Hollenbach · Eggolsheim, DE
• Franz Schmitt · Erlangen, DE
• Ines Nimsky · Erlangen, DE
• Anders Dale · Village of La Jolla, US
• Andre Jan Willem Van Der Kouwe · Woburn, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 22, 2003
• Grant date: Oct 4, 2005
• Expiry date: Dec 22, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B6/506
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method and computer program product for operating a tomographic imaging apparatus, a standard measurement protocol is generated by displaying a planning representation of a standard object, defining a spatial position of a standard imaging area in the planning representation, and storing, as the standard measurement protocol for the standard object, a reference to the standard object and parameters of the standard imaging area. Such a standard measurement protocol can then be used in the slice position planning for an actual tomographic measurement, by obtaining data representing features of an examination object, corresponding to the standard object, determining a geometrical relation of the features of the examination object to features of the standard object, and generating an object-specific measurement protocol wherein the imaging area is positioned relative to the examination object by modification of the standard measurement protocol.