Adaptive scout scan range and combination
AssigneeGE Precision Healthcare LLC
InventorsChelsey Amanda Lewis, Priti Madhav
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Abstract
A system for combining multiple scans in a computed tomography (CT) imaging workflow, comprising a protocol selection module configured to select two or more scan protocols for a patient, a scan combination module configured to combine the scans associated with the selected scan protocols into a combined scan, wherein the scan is either contiguous or non-contiguous based on anatomical landmarks, and a scan execution module configured to control a CT scan machine to execute the combined scan on the patient.
Claims20
A system for combining multiple scans in a computed tomography (CT) imaging workflow, comprising:
- a protocol selection module configured to select two or more scan protocols for a patient;
- a scan combination module configured to combine the scans associated with the selected scan protocols into a combined scan, wherein the scan is either contiguous or non-contiguous based on anatomical landmarks;
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- a scan execution module configured to control a CT scan machine to execute the combined scan on the patient.
A method for combining multiple scans in a computed tomography (CT) imaging workflow, comprising:
- selecting, by a protocol selection module, two or more scan protocols for a patient;
- combining, by a scan combination module, the scans associated with the selected scan protocols into a combined scan, wherein the scan is either contiguous or non-contiguous based on anatomical landmarks;
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- controlling, by a scan execution module, a CT scan machine to execute the combined scan on the patient.
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