Patent ID: 7953202

Claim:
An operating method for a medical imaging system, comprising the steps of: through a computerized control device, acquiring medical image data by controlling operation of a medical imaging system according to a measurement sequence entered into the control device, that defines said operation of the medical imaging system to acquire said medical imaging data from an examination subject interacting with the medical imaging system, by implementing the measurement sequence; in said control device, automatically associating a reference to the measurement sequence with the acquired data, and storing the acquired data together with the associated reference; in said control device, automatically reconstructing an image of the examination subject using the acquired data and emitting the image as an output for display at a viewing device of the medical imaging system; manually entering an activation command into the control device and thereby causing the control device to automatically identify said measurement sequence using the reference associated with the acquired data from which the image was reconstructed, and to automatically associate a further reference to the measurement sequence with at least one image corresponding with the displayed image; in said control device, making said measurement sequence available for searching; and in said control device, upon retrieval of the measurement sequence in a search, automatically also retrieving all images associated, through said further reference, with the retrieved measurement sequence.