Cloud-based mr imaging
AssigneeSiemens Healthcare GmbH
InventorsRoland Faber, Marcus Wuebbe, Thomas Blum
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Abstract
A magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system has an infrastructure within a cloud, designed to generate and/or activate and/or deactivate and/or terminate virtual systems on demand, which generate and operate multiple MR workflows as instances. The virtual systems has a cloud-based virtual MR host with an active MR workflow connected on demand to an MR control computer that operates an MR scanner to control an imaging process on the basis of one of the workflows. A client unit transmits patient-specific data to the virtual MR host and evaluates image data received from the virtual MR host.
Claims6
A magnetic resonance (MR) imaging apparatus comprising:
- an infrastructure within a cloud configured to apply an action on demand to virtual systems that generate and operate a plurality of MR workflows as instances, said action being selected from the group consisting of generating said virtual systems, activating said virtual systems, deactivating said virtual systems and terminating said virtual systems;
- an MR data acquisition scanner;
- a control computer in communication with said MR data acquisition scanner;
- said virtual systems comprising a cloud-based virtual MR host with an active MR workflow, said virtual MR host being connected on demand to said control computer;
- said control computer being configured to operate the MR data acquisition scanner in order to control an imaging procedure executed by the MR data acquisition scanner based on one of the workflows stored in the virtual MR host;
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- at least one client processor configured to transmit patient-specific data to the virtual MR host, and to evaluate image data received by the virtual MR host.
A method for implementing a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging procedure, comprising:
- transmitting patient-specific data from a client processor to a cloud-based virtual MR host, and executing an active MR workflow in said cloud-based virtual MR host selected from a plurality of MR workflows in the cloud;
- connecting the virtual MR host to an MR data acquisition scanner via a control computer connected to the MR data acquisition scanner;
- transmitting the active workflow from the virtual MR host to the control computer;
- operating the MR data acquisition scanner via the control computer based on the active workflow;
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- evaluating image data received from the MR host via at least one client processor.
A non-transitory, computer-readable data storage medium encoded with programming instructions, said storage medium being loaded into a control computer of a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging apparatus, said MR imaging apparatus also comprising an MR data acquisition scanner operated by the control computer, said programming instructions causing the control computer to:
- transmit patient-specific data from a client processor to a cloud-based virtual MR host, and execute an active MR workflow in said cloud-based virtual MR host selected from a plurality of MR workflows in the cloud;
- connect the virtual MR host to said MR data acquisition scanner via a control computer connected to the MR data acquisition scanner;
- transmit the active workflow from the virtual MR host to the control computer;
- operate the MR data acquisition scanner via the control computer based on the active workflow;
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- evaluate image data received from the MR host via at least one client processor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.