Patent ID: 8406855

Claim:
A medical system comprising: a mammography apparatus configured to obtain tomographic scans of a breast of a patient in a mammography procedure, said tomographic scans including a first tomoscan and at least one second tomoscan following said first tomoscan; said mammography apparatus comprising a movable compression plate operable to selectively compress and decompress the breast in the mammography apparatus during said mammography procedure; a contrast agent injector configured to interact with the patient to inject contrast agent into the patient; a computerized control unit configured to operate said mammography apparatus, including operating said compression plate, and to operate said contrast agent injector with synchronized control of operation of said contrast agent injector and said mammography apparatus; said control unit having an input provided with predefined, patient-specific parameters having respective values that are specific to the patient; said control unit being configured to automatically calculate injection-specific data, comprising a contrast agent quantity and a contrast agent flow speed, from said patient-specific parameters, and to control injection of said contrast agent into the patient via said contrast agent injector using said injection-specific data; said control unit also being configured to automatically determine compression data dependent on said injection-specific data, and to control compression and decompression of the breast in the mammography apparatus by moving said compression plate dependent on said compression data; and said control unit also being configured to calculate mammography apparatus control data dependent on said patient-specific parameters, said injection-specific data and said compression data, and to control said mammography apparatus dependent on said mammography apparatus control data, said mammography apparatus control data including at least a designation of a starting point in time for said at least one second tomoscan, with said mammography apparatus control data and said compression data and said injection-specific data being matched to each other.