Patent Document ID: 20120150505
Application ID: 13315208
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing a plurality medical imaging providers with estimates of radiation dose absorbed by individuals receiving imaging scans, the method comprising: receiving, from one of the medical imaging providers, a request for an estimate of radiation dose absorbed by an individual in receiving an imaging scan, wherein the request identifies an imaging phantom, a transformation for deforming the imaging phantom, and a set of parameters describing the imaging scan and an image scanning apparatus being used to perform the imaging scan; deforming the imaging phantom based on the transformation; evaluating a plurality of dose estimation simulations estimating radiation dose absorption; upon determining, based on the evaluation, that two or more of the simulations match the received set of parameters and deformed imaging phantom within a specified tolerance measure, interpolating the estimates of radiation dose in the two or more simulations to determine the estimate of radiation dose absorbed by the individual in receiving the imaging scan; and returning, to the medical imaging provider, the interpolated estimate of patient dose.