Patent ID: 8073225
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: G01R,G06T,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for computerized optimization of a combined data acquisition and calculation procedure, comprising the steps of: acquiring medical image data, selected from the group consisting of magnetic resonance image data, ultrasound image data, and computed tomography image data, in a data acquisition process comprising a plurality of measurement data sequences; operating on said medical image data to generate an image from said measurement data by performing an electronic calculation based on the acquired medical image data in an image reconstruction calculation process, while acquiring further medical image data in said data acquisition process in parallel with said calculation process; electronically deconstructing said calculation process into a plurality of calculation packets; for each of said calculation packets, electronically defining a rule set that designates logical dependencies among all of said calculation packets, said logical dependencies comprising at least one of requirements that must be fulfilled before a calculation packet can be executed, and an amount of said medical image data, represented by one or more of said measurement data sequences, that must be acquired before a calculation packet can be executed; dynamically electronically restructuring said calculation process into a workflow structure, based on said calculation packets and said rule sets, in which said acquisition of said measurement data sequences and said calculation packets are interleaved; and controlling said acquisition of said medical image data in said measurement data sequences interleaved with said calculation packets in said calculation process using the workflow structure of said calculation process, so that said measurement data sequences are available, as needed, in said workflow structure, and automatically executing the respective calculation packets at respective earliest points in time permitted by the rule set defined therefore.