Patent ID: 9636077
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01G

Claim:
1. A method for an automatic selection of a scanning protocol for a tomographic recording of an X-ray image of a patient, the method comprising: retrieving, by a first computer, at least one patient-specific value from a second computer via a network connection between the first computer and the second computer, the at least one patient-specific value being a measure of an anticipated X-ray absorption of the patient; storing the at least one patient-specific value in an internal memory of the first computer; retrieving the at least one patient-specific value from the internal memory of first computer; automatically comparing the at least one patient-specific value with corresponding retrievably stored reference values, each reference value being associated with a scanning protocol from among a plurality of scanning protocols; and automatically selecting the scanning protocol by way of the first computer using the automatically comparing.