Patent ID: 7536644
Filing Date: 2009-05-19
Classification: G06F,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for facilitating selection of stored medical images, the method comprising: (a) storing a plurality of medical images, wherein the plurality of medical images are acquired by a medical image acquisition device; (b) for each medical image, storing settings of at least one acquisition time control of the medical image acquisition device used to acquire the image, wherein an acquisition time control of the medical image acquisition device comprises a control that is manipulated in a process of acquiring the image to affect how the image is acquired, wherein manipulating the acquisition time control affects one or more of transmit, receive, and processing operations; (c) receiving a set of acquisition time control settings used to acquire at least one medical image that a user wants to retrieve from the stored plurality of medical images, wherein the set of acquisition time control settings are selected by the user by manipulating the same at least one acquisition time control of the medical image acquisition device that was manipulated in the process of acquiring the at least one medical image, and wherein the received set of acquisition time control settings are at least some of the same settings used to acquire the at least one medical image; and (d) based on the set of acquisition time control settings received in (c), automatically selecting a set of medical images from the stored plurality of medical images.