US 11,668,776 B2
Method for providing a process plan of a magnetic resonance examination
Ralf Kartäusch, Bubenreuth (DE); and Uvo Hölscher, Erlangen (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/212,309.
Claims priority of application No. 102020203958.5 (DE), filed on Mar. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0302524 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. G01R 33/54 (2006.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G16H 70/20 (2018.01)
CPC G01R 33/546 (2013.01) [G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G16H 70/20 (2018.01)] 17 Claims
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1. A method for providing a magnetic resonance examination process plan incorporating one or more protocols, comprising:
selecting, via one or more processors, an examination strategy comprising one or more metaprotocols equal to the number of the one or more protocols, and a chronological order of the one or more metaprotocols,
storing each one of the one or more metaprotocols in a memory, each one of the one or more metaprotocols being identified with a protocol category including a plurality of different protocol variants of a protocol that is associated with the protocol category,
wherein each one of the one or more metaprotocols is stored in the memory occupying an amount of storage space that is less than an amount of storage space required to store each combination of protocol variants used for a magnetic resonance examination in a preconfigured form;
iteratively selecting, via one or more processors, for each one of the one or more metaprotocols, one of the plurality of different protocol variants of a respective protocol category;
generating, via one or more processors, the magnetic resonance examination process plan comprising each one of the iteratively selected plurality of different protocol variants; and
utilizing, via one or more processors, the generated magnetic resonance examination process plan to perform a magnetic resonance examination.