Patent ID: 8682953

Claim:
A hospital system for generating medical image data, the hospital system comprising: a plurality of imaging modalities disposed in a plurality of rooms, each imaging modality of the plurality of imaging modalities configured to generate raw image data; a plurality of servers disposed in a central control room spatially separated from the plurality of rooms, each server of the plurality of servers configured to calculate image data from the raw image data and simulate a virtual machine for each imaging modality of the plurality of imaging modalities for the calculation of the image data from the raw image data generated by the respective modality, each of the virtual machines being tailored to a specific imaging modality of the plurality of imaging modalities; a network that transmits the raw image data from the plurality of imaging modalities to the plurality of servers; and a workstation configured to display the image data that is accessible via the network, wherein the virtual machines are configured to calculate the image data independently for each imaging modality of the plurality of imaging modalities, wherein the workstation is a thin client, and wherein the plurality of imaging modalities includes an X-ray tomography device, an MRI scanner, a C-arm X-ray system, or an imaging system.