Patent Document ID: 9615804
Application ID: 13531841
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for generating a medical image and evaluating the medical image, comprising: in a processor comprising a user interface, executing, prior to acquisition of raw data from a patient, a primary application program that formulates a sequence of operation of a medical modality, dependent on selected modality parameters, to operate said medical modality to acquire said raw data from the patient by interaction of the patient with the medical modality, and to operate a reconstruction computer to reconstruct image data from the raw data to produce the medical image by executing a reconstruction algorithm employing selected reconstruction parameters, and to control an automated evaluation of the medical image dependent on a selected analysis application program, wherein said modality parameters and selection of said reconstruction parameters affect an image content of said medical image; via said interface, entering a designation of the selected analysis application program and a designation of patient information describing at least one physical attribute of the patient that is needed for said automated evaluation of the medical image, said selected analysis application program having an image content requirement that said medical image must satisfy in order for said medical image to be analyzed by said selected analysis application program; executing a secondary application program in said processor to automatically propose, via said user interface, a single set of parameter values in said sequence for said modality parameters and said reconstruction parameters, said single set of parameter values being coordinated to said analysis application program and the patient information provided to said processor in order to make said medical image satisfy said image content requirement for said analysis application; and presenting a visual representation of the formulated sequence at a display screen in communication with said processor for acceptance or modification by a user.