Method and medical imaging apparatus for determining at least one patient-specific safety parameter for a medical imaging examination

A medical imaging apparatus comprising:

• a medical data acquisition scanner having a patient-positioning device;
• a position data acquisition detector that acquires position data of the patient while the patient is situated on said patient-positioning device;
• a safety parameter determining processor;
• said position data acquisition detector being configured to transmit the acquired position data to said safety parameter determining processor;
• said safety parameter determining processor being configured to evaluate the acquired position data to obtain position information of the patient;
• and
• said safety parameter determining processor being configured to determine a patient-specific safety parameter using the position information, and to make the patient-specific safety parameter available in electronic form from the safety parameter determining processor.

A non-transitory, computer-readable data storage medium encoded with programming instructions, said programming instructions being loaded into a control computer of a medical imaging apparatus that comprises a position data acquisition detector and a safety parameter determining processor, said storage medium being encoded with programming instructions that cause said a position data acquisition detector and said safety parameter determining processor to:

• with said position data acquisition detector, acquire position data of the patient while the patient is situated on a patient-positioning device of the medical imaging apparatus;
• transmit the acquired position data to the safety parameter determining processor;
• in said safety parameter determining processor, evaluate the acquired position data to obtain position information of the patient;
• and
• in said safety parameter determining processor, determine a patient-specific safety parameter using the position information, and make the patient-specific safety parameter available in electronic form from the safety parameter determining processor.