Patent Document ID: 20110208046
Application ID: 13101216
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a set of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computer, causes the computer to: prompt a user to enter patient-specific information for a given scan patient; prompt a user to select a scan type; receive bolus tracking data for the given patient; provide an individualized scan protocol defining a contrast agent delivery, an x-ray dosage, and scan sequence timing, based upon the patient-specific information, the scan type, and the bolus tracking data; trigger commencement of a scan sequence to acquire image data from a region-of-interest (ROI), the scan sequence based on the individualized scan protocol; reconstruct an image from the acquired image data; update the x-ray dosage to an updated x-ray dosage based on the image; and trigger commencement of a second scan sequence to acquire image data from the ROI, the second scan sequence based on the updated x-ray dosage.