Patent ID: 7963936

Claim:
A method of operation for a medical imaging system that includes an imaging apparatus and a contrast media injector, the contrast media injector being designed to have a syringe mounted thereto, and the contrast media injector having a powered drive ram that is designed to interface with a plunger of the syringe to move the plunger of the syringe forward and backward relative to a barrel of the syringe when the syringe is mounted on the contrast media injector, the method comprising: electromagnetically reading data from a data tag of the syringe, wherein the syringe has medical fluid for use in a medical imaging procedure disposed therein, wherein the electromagnetically reading is conducted using an electromagnetic device of the contrast media injector; transferring the data that is electromagnetically read to the imaging apparatus, wherein the data that is electromagnetically read and transferred comprises data regarding a used or unused status of the syringe; and electronically checking the data that is electromagnetically read against a database of previously used syringes.