Intelligent nuclear medicine patient workflow scheduler
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsBenjamin LORMAN, Yu-Lung HSIEH, Varun VERMA, Chi-Hua TUNG, Changhong DAI
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Abstract
A nuclear medicine scanner system (1) includes an intelligent scheduler (2) which schedules a plurality of patients, each for an ordered nuclear medicine scanning procedure with a nuclear medicine scanning device (4) based on data mined from prior patients with like scanning procedures and in a time window which minimizes the patient dose.
Claims21
A nuclear medicine scanner system, comprising:
- an intelligent scheduler which schedules a plurality of patients, each for an ordered nuclear medicine scanning procedure with a nuclear medicine scanning device based on data mined from prior patients with like scanning procedures and in a time window which minimizes the patient dose.
A method of scheduling nuclear medicine imaging, comprising:
- scheduling a plurality of patients, each for an ordered nuclear medicine scanning procedure with a nuclear medicine scanning device based on data mined from prior patients with like scanning procedures and in a time window which minimizes the patient dose.
The method according to claim 14, wherein data mining further includes:
- selecting times and durations of scanning procedures of prior patient scanning procedures based on at least one of:
- radiopharmaceutical;
- administered unit dose of radiopharmaceutical;
- a region of interest;
- a scan protocol;
- scan duration;
- time of day;
- type of scanning device;
- device options;
- hours of operation;
- and
- best practice guidelines.
A nuclear medicine scanner system, comprising:
- at least one processor configured to:
- schedule a plurality of patients for an ordered nuclear medicine scanning procedure for a nuclear medicine scanning device, each patient scheduled for:
- an arrival date and time;
- a time and an amount of a unit radiopharmaceutical dosage based on the ordered procedure, the patient characteristics and the arrival time;
- and
- a time and duration of a scanning procedure based on the time and dosage of the radiopharmaceutical, patient loading/unloading requirements, and the ordered procedure;
- and
- forecast based on received unit doses of radiopharmaceuticals, and the arrival of the plurality of scheduled patients:
- the time to administer to each received unit dosage of radiopharmaceutical to each patient;
- the time and duration to load each patient into the scanning device;
- the time and duration to perform the ordered scanning procedure;
- and
- the time and duration to unload each patient from the scanning device.
A nuclear medicine scanner system, comprising:
- at least one processor configured to:
- track a plurality of received ordered unit doses of radiopharmaceuticals and each tracked unit dose includes a decay of each radiopharmaceutical dose with time, and an intended patient with a scheduled arrival time and with an ordered scanning procedure;
- and
- forecast based on data mined about use of a scanning device, the tracked unit doses of radiopharmaceuticals, and an arrival of each patient:
- a time to administer each tracked unit dose to each patient,
- a time and duration to load each patient into the scanning device,
- a time and duration to perform the ordered scanning procedure with the scanning device, and
- a time and duration to unload each patient from the scanning device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.