Patent ID: 8094909

Claim:
Apparatus configured for remotely controlling real-time measurement operating parameters of a medical image scanner, said apparatus comprising: a non-transitory software interface implementing an open protocol that translates commands received from a non-transitory external software application that provides medical image scanner control commands to a scanner control machine that control said operating parameters, wherein said external software application runs on an external machine, said external machine is remotely located with respect to the scanner control machine, and said external machine and said scanner control machine being nodes of geographically separate local area networks coupled via a wide area network or the Internet; said software interface comprising a remote protocol modifier that manipulates available operating parameters of an open protocol over the wide area network or the Internet in real time; said software interface comprising syntax software that translates said scanner control commands from said external software application into a given syntax that provides said scanner control commands to said scanner control machine, in real time, whereby a user of the external software application remotely controls the geographically separate medical image scanner and the real-time measurement operating parameters via the wide area network or the Internet.