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US 6,661,228 B2Granted
Data transfer system in multi-server medical imaging systems
AssigneeGE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
InventorsRobert H. Haworth, William J. Balloni, Mark T. Radick
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Abstract
A medical imaging system includes a workstation for receiving operator inputs that prescribe a scan and a plurality of servers which control the acquisition of image data and the reconstruction of prescribed images. Tag routers in the workstation and each server enable data in the form of tagged data objects to be exchanged during performance of a scan.
Claims16
In a medical imaging system having a workstation and a plurality of servers, a tagged data system which comprises:
- a set of routers located at respective servers and the workstation for coupling tag data therebetween, each router including:
- a) a tagged data factory for receiving taggable data from a local process and producing a tagged data object, and for passing the tagged data object to the router for transmission to another router;
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- b) a tagged data receiver for registering with the router a local process and for passing to registered local processes tagged data objects received by the router from other routers.
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A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system which comprises:
- a) a workstation programmed to provide:
- i) an operator interface for receiving input information which prescribes a scan to be performed;
- ii) a pulse description comprised of components which determine the pulses produced during the scan;
- iii) a sequence description comprised of components which determine the pulse sequence used during the scan to acquire NMR signals;
- iv) a data processing description comprised of components which determine how the acquired NMR signals are processed into a clinically useful form;
- b) a plurality of servers coupled to the workstation and being operable to receive the descriptions downloaded from the workstation, each server being operable in response to downloaded descriptions to operate elements of the MRI system to perform the scan;
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- c) a tagged data system comprised of routers located at the workstation and each of the servers, the routers being coupled together to convey tagged data objects therebetween and each router being operable to produce tagged data objects from data passed to the router from a local process and being operable to pass received tagged data objects to a registered local process.
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