Patent ID: 8537969

Claim:
An apparatus for specifying a quantity of a contrast medium in the context of medical imaging, comprising: an input unit, by which parameters are enterable by an operator for an imaging examination that is to be executed; a storage unit, on which are stored at least calculation formulas for specifying the quantity of a contrast medium that is required for the examination; an interface to an imaging device, via which configuration parameters of the device can be read out from the device or sent to the device; a calculating unit, designed such that it either retrieves from the device via the interface those configuration parameters that are required for a calculation, or sends to the device via the interface those configuration parameters that have been entered and, depending on the parameters that have been at least one entered and read out, invokes the associated calculation formula and uses this calculation formula to calculate the quantity of a contrast medium on the basis of the parameters that have been at least one of entered and read out; and an output unit, by which the quantity of a contrast medium that has been calculated by the calculating unit is displayed.