Method and apparatus for generating variable resolution medical images
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorNahi Halmann
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Abstract
A hand carried medical imaging device includes a probe configured to acquire raw medical image data, an integrated display, a data memory configured to store the acquired raw medical image data, a back end processor, and a user interface operably coupled to the back end processor configured to receive commands from a user and to instruct the back end processor to display the produced medical image on the integrated display at a first resolution, and to either produce and send either the medical image at the second, higher resolution, to send the acquired raw image data, or both, to the external device, in accordance with the commands from the user.
Claims20
A hand carried medical imaging device having:
- a probe configured to acquire raw medical image data;
- an integrated display configured to display a medical image;
- a data memory configured to store the acquired raw medical image data;
- a back end processor being one of hardware, software, and combinations thereof, the back end processor operably coupled to the data memory and configured to perform frame processing, scan processing, and resolution selection using the acquired raw medical image data and to produce a medical image of a first resolution to display on the integrated display, and to produce and send either a medical image at a second, higher resolution, to send acquired raw image data, or both to an external device;
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- a user interface operably coupled to the back end processor configured to receive commands from a user and to instruct the back end processor to display the produced medical image on the integrated display at a first resolution, and to either produce and send either the medical image at the second, higher resolution, to send the acquired raw image data, or both, to the external device, in accordance with the commands from the user.
A method for operating a hand carried medical imaging device having a probe configured to acquire raw medical image data, an integrated display configured to display a medical image, a data memory configured to store the acquired raw medical image data, a back end processor operably coupled to the data memory and configured to perform frame processing, scan conversion, and resolution selection using the acquired raw medical image data and to produce a medical image of a first resolution to display on the integrated display, and to produce and send either a medical image at a second, higher resolution, to send acquired raw image data, or both to an external device, and a user interface operably coupled to the back end processor configured to receive commands from a user and to instruct the back end processor to display the produced medical image on the integrated display at a first resolution, and to either produce and send either the medical image at the second, higher resolution, to send the acquired raw image data, or both, to the external device, in accordance with the commands from the user, said method comprising:
- storing raw medical image data in a coordinate system of the probe;
- and, in accordance with instructions received via the user interface, to one of:
- perform a scan conversion on the raw medical image data and display a resulting medical image at a first resolution on the integrated display;
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- at least one of transfer raw data to the external device for further processing or storage, or perform a scan conversion on the raw medical image data and display a resulting medical image at a second, higher resolution on an external display or a printer.
A machine readable medium or media having recorded thereon instructions configured to instruct a processor in a hand carried medical imaging device to:
- store raw medical image data in a coordinate system of the probe on a data memory;
- and, in accordance with instructions received via a user interface, to one of:
- perform a scan conversion on the raw medical image data and display a resulting medical image at a first resolution on an integrated display;
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- at least one of transfer raw data to an external device for further processing or storage, or perform a scan conversion on the raw medical image data and display a resulting medical image at a second, higher resolution on an external display or printer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.