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Device to make expert knowledge accessible for the operation of medical examination devices

US7640172B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 29, 2003
Grant dateDec 29, 2009
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Expiry dateJul 28, 2027

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG16H40/67
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A device to make expert knowledge available to a user (doctor) of a medical examination device is provided, with a transmission device in order to transcribe at this examination device a handbook procedure of an outside expert in the form of pulse sequences, protocols, parameter sets or the like for the examination device, coordinated with precise medical diagnoses by the inquiring user with an external (if necessary, decentralized) databank which stores settings for a plurality of clinical cases from patient parameters, as well as a computer (expert system) that searches for appropriate suggestions in the databank upon request, and the user submits one or more suggestions according to the result, in that, on a correspondingly expanded user interface of the user examination device, the respective providers are indicated and parallel and offered to be selected.

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