Patent ID: 8140365
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: G06Q,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of medical diagnostic imaging workflow management for controlling a medical diagnostic imaging scanner, said method comprising the steps of: accessing a template including a medical diagnostic imaging scan sequence which controls a medical diagnostic imaging scanner to perform a medical diagnostic imaging scan on a patient. the templated scan sequence including alterable and unalterable subsequences with their corresponding durations; accessing an available time span for executing said medical diagnostic imaging scan sequence template; calculating a difference between said available time span and a sum of the scan subsequence durations in said medical imaging scan template; determining an allowable duration for said medical diagnostic imaging scan sequence based on said difference; optimizing by one or more computers the medical diagnostic imaging scan sequence of said template to fit into the allowable duration by: wherein adjusting the duration of one or more of the subsequences alters one or more of spatial resolution temporal resolution, contrast, a signal to noise ratio, and artifact sensitivity of at least one of the image data acquired by the scanner and the medical diagnostic image reconstructed from acquired image data.