US 2006/0242092 A1Published application

Method and apparatus for acquisition and administration of medical image data

AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft

InventorFrank Rometsch

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Abstract

In an apparatus and method for acquisition and administration of medical image data, the apparatus having one or more medical image acquisition modalities for image data acquisition that are to be operated via associated computers, at least one server with an image data storage and at least one workstation computer with an image reproduction device for representation and processing of acquired and/or stored image data; the server and the workstation computer being connected with one another and with the image acquisition modality or image acquisition modalities via a data connection, the ability of a system administrator to get an overview of the system operation is facilitated by the server being configured (relative to the modality) for time-resolved determination of the image data acquisition and administration of associated performance data of the server and/or of the workstation computer, and/or of the data connection, the performance data relating to read and/or write activities at the server, and the server allows graphical representation of the performance data on an image reproduction device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An apparatus for acquisition and administration of medical image data, comprising:

at least one medical imaging modality that acquires medical image data, said medical imaging modality comprising an operating computer that operates the medical imaging modality;
a server having an image data storage, in which said medical image data acquired by said medical imaging modality is stored;
at least one workstation computer having an image reproduction device, said workstation computer processing and representing, via said image reproduction device, medical image data from said image data storage of said server or medical image data supplied directly from said medical imaging modality;
a data connection placing said operating computer, said server and said workstation computer in data communication with each other;
said server being configured for time-resolved identification of the acquisition of said medical image data and for administration of associated performance data for at least one of said server, said workstation computer and said data connection, said performance data comprising activities of said server selected from the group consisting of read activities and write activities, and said performance data being selected from the group consisting of a storage activity of said at least one medical imaging modality, storage activity of said at least one workstation computer, image request activity of said workstation computer, a loading time at said workstation computer for individual medical images, a loading time at said workstation computer for medical images in a series, network traffic entering said server and network traffic exiting said server;
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said server having a server image reproduction device and said server being configured to represent said performance data at said server image reproduction device.

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A method for acquisition and administration of medical image data, comprising the steps of:

acquiring medical image data using at least one medical imaging modality, said medical imaging modality comprising an operating computer that operates the medical imaging modality;
storing said medical image data acquired by said medical imaging modality in an image data storage;
processing said medical image data at at least one workstation computer having an image reproduction device, and representing, via said image reproduction device, medical image data from said image data storage of said server or medical image data supplied directly from said medical imaging modality;
placing said operating computer, said server and said workstation computer in data communication with each other via a data connection;
in said server, making a time-resolved identification of the acquisition of said medical image data and for administration of associated performance data for at least one of said server, said workstation computer and said data connection, said performance data comprising activities of said server selected from the group consisting of read activities and write activities, and said performance data being selected from the group consisting of a storage activity of said at least one medical imaging modality, storage activity of said at least one workstation computer, image request activity of said workstation computer, a loading time at said workstation computer for individual medical images, a loading time at said workstation computer for medical images in a series, network traffic entering said server and network traffic exiting said server;
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representing said performance data at a server image reproduction device of said server.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/367,844Filed 3 Mar 2006
Priority: DE 10 2005 009 852.53 Mar 2005
Published: 26 Oct 2006
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Classification8 codes

G06F 11/3419
For performance assessment: by assessing time
G06F 16/248
Querying: presentation of query results
G16H 30/20
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical images: for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
G16H 30/40
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical images: for processing medical images, e.g. editing