System and method for graphical processing of medical data
AssigneeVolcano Corporation
InventorJason Spencer
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Abstract
The invention provides a computer server with a graphical processer that can process data from multiple medical imaging systems simultaneously. Data sets can be provided by any suitable imaging system (x-ray, angiography, PET scans, MRI, IVUS, OCT, cath labs, etc.) and a processing system of the invention allocates resources in the form of a virtual machine, processing power, operating system, applications, etc., as-needed. Embodiments of the invention may find particular application with cath labs due to the particular processing requirements of typical cath lab systems.
Claims18
A medical imaging system comprising:
- a server comprising a graphics processor coupled to a memory wherein a hypervisor defines a plurality of virtual machines within the graphics processor, and further wherein the system is operable to:
- receive a data set from a cath lab;
- perform, using the graphics processor, a plurality of transformations in parallel on the data set within one of the plurality of virtual machines;
- and
- provide an image of the tissue to the cath lab.
A method of medical imaging, the method comprising:
- using a server comprising a graphics processor coupled to a memory wherein a hypervisor defines a plurality of virtual machines for:
- receiving from a cath lab a data set comprising information about a patient's tissue;
- performing an analysis comprising a plurality of transformations in parallel on the data set within one of the plurality of virtual machines;
- and
- providing a result of the analysis.
A system for medical imaging, the system comprising:
- a server computer comprising a graphical processing unit;
- a hypervisor module operable to initiate the creation of a plurality of virtual machines in the server computer and coordinate, in each of the virtual machines, a set of processing operations by the graphical processing unit on a set of image data;
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- a tangible, non-transitory memory coupled to the graphical processing unit and operable to store processed image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.