US 11,786,200 B2
Method and image recording apparatus for obtaining image data from a patient involving administration of a contrast medium to the patient
Stephan Nufer, Erlangen (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Apr. 26, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/395,834.
Claims priority of application No. 102018206517.9 (DE), filed on Apr. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0328344 A1, Oct. 31, 2019
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2006.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01)
CPC A61B 6/481 (2013.01) [A61B 6/463 (2013.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating an image recording apparatus comprising an image data acquisition scanner, said method comprising:
with a control computer, operating the data acquisition scanner so as to execute an upcoming image data acquisition sequence during which at least one contrast medium is to be administered to a patient, the image data acquisition sequence comprising a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging sequence performed in accordance with an MR scan protocol;
receiving, into said control computer, an image recording information item describing said image data acquisition, and receiving at least one patient information item describing a property of the patient,
wherein the image recording information item comprises the MR scan protocol or a sequence of a plurality of MR scan protocols to be executed by said scanner in said image data acquisition, each MR scan protocol comprising control commands for operating said scanner in said image data acquisition;
receiving, by said control computer, a contrast medium information item, the contrast medium information item describing availability of contrast media for said image data acquisition sequence and one or more properties of at least one contrast medium among the available contrast media, wherein the one or more properties of the at least one contrast medium are designated based on the image recording information item;
in said control computer, determining a set of suitable contrast media from the available contrast media for the image data acquisition sequence based on the image recording information item;
in said control computer, for each of the contrast media of the set of suitable contrast media, determining a respective contrast medium quantity based on the at least one patient information item;
in said control computer, determining, based on the image recording information item, the at least one patient information item, and the contrast medium information item, a contrast medium administration information item comprising: a contrast medium to be administered to the patient from the set of suitable contrast media, the respective contrast medium quantity for the contrast medium to be administered to the patient, and a point in time in said image data acquisition sequence in which the contrast medium is to be administered; and
from said control computer, displaying said administration information item at a display screen in communication with said control computer, at said point in time.