Method to prepare an interventional and/or diagnostic imaging procedure with at least two different medical imaging modalitites

US9117257B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Hanns Eder · Bubenreuth, DE
• Patrick Gross · Langensendelbach, DE
• Annemarie Hausotte · Erlangen, DE
• Martin Ringholz · Erlangen, DE
• Eva Rothgang · Nuremberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 5, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 25, 2015
• Expiry date: Feb 5, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T2207/30004
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method and medical imaging system to prepare an interventional and/or diagnostic imaging procedure to be conducted with at least two different medical imaging modalities of the system, a patient is positioned on a patient support device and the patient support device, together with the patient, are moved into a patient acquisition region of a first medical imaging modality of the system. A first image data set of the patient to be examined is acquired with the first medical imaging modality. The first image data set is automatically evaluated in a data evaluation unit. At least patient parameter is automatically calculated from the evaluated first image data set. At least one compatibility value is automatically calculated depending on the at least one patient parameter and depending on at least one apparatus parameter of at least one additional medical imaging modality in the system. The compatibility value indicates whether the additional modality is compatible with the patient in order to conduct another of the procedures using that additional modality.