Patent ID: 9117257
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: A61B,G06T,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method to prepare an imaging procedure, selected from the group consisting of interventional imaging procedures and diagnostic imaging procedures, to be performed by an imaging system that comprises a first medical imaging modality and at least one additional medical imaging modality that differs from said first imaging modality, said method comprising: positioning a patient on a patient support device and moving the patient support device with the patient thereon into a medical image data acquisition region of said first medical imaging modality; operating said first medical imaging modality to acquire an image data set from the patient; in a processor, automatically evaluating said image data set to obtain an evaluation result; in said processor, calculating, from said evaluation result, at least one patient parameter; in said processor, calculating at least one compatibility value dependent on said at least one patient parameter and dependent on at least one apparatus parameter that represents a physical attribute of said at least one additional medical imaging modality, said compatibility value designating a compatibility of said at least one additional medical imaging modality for performing an additional procedure, selected from said group consisting of interventional procedures and diagnostic imaging procedures, on said patient using said at least one additional medical imaging modality; and from said processor, making said at least one compatibility value available as an output in a humanly perceptible form.