Modular processing of magnetic resonance data
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsAshwin Krishnakumar, Vinay Parthan
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Abstract
The invention provides for medical instrument comprising a magnetic resonance imaging system. Execution of the instruction cause a processor controlling the instrument to: execute a magnetic resonance data processing application thereby providing a plug-in framework, execute a protocol definition interface to load a first selection of the plug-ins into the plug-in framework, acquire the magnetic resonance data by using the pulse sequence data to control the magnetic resonance imaging system; and reconstruct a magnetic resonance image from the magnetic resonance data using the first selection of the plug-ins.
Claims4
A computer program product comprising machine executable instructions for execution by at least one processor controlling a medical instrument;
- wherein the medical instrument comprises a magnetic resonance imaging system for acquiring magnetic resonance data from an imaging zone;
- wherein the medical instrument further comprises a memory containing:
- a magnetic resonance data processing application pulse sequence data, at least one numerical algorithm library, a plug-in wrapper library configured for providing the least one numerical algorithm library as plug-ins, and a protocol definition interface;
- wherein the at least one numerical algorithm library comprises machine executable code for performing at least one numerical algorithm;
- wherein the magnetic resonance data processing application is configured for implementing a plug-in framework for numerical processing of the magnetic resonance data;
- wherein the protocol definition interface is configured for controlling the loading of the plug-ins and the execution order of the plug-ins;
- and wherein execution of the instruction cause the at least one processor to:
- execute the magnetic resonance data processing application thereby providing the plug-in framework,
- execute the protocol definition interface to load a first selection of the plug-ins into the plug-in framework,
- acquire the magnetic resonance data by using the pulse sequence data to control the magnetic resonance imaging system, and
- reconstruct a magnetic resonance image from the magnetic resonance data using the first selection of the plug-ins.
A method of operating a medical instrument comprising a magnetic resonance imaging system for acquiring magnetic resonance data from an imaging zone;
- wherein the medical instrument further comprises a memory containing:
- a magnetic resonance data processing application pulse, sequence data, at least one numerical algorithm library, a plug-in wrapper library configured for providing the least one numerical algorithm library as plug-ins, and a protocol definition interface;
- wherein the at least one numerical algorithm library comprises machine executable code for performing at least one numerical algorithm;
- wherein the magnetic resonance data processing application is configured for implementing a plug-in framework for numerical processing of the magnetic resonance data;
- wherein the protocol definition interface is configured for controlling the loading of the plug-ins and the execution order of the plug-ins;
- and wherein the method comprises the steps of:
- executing the magnetic resonance data processing application thereby providing the plug-in framework, executing the protocol definition interface to load a first selection of the plug-ins into the plug-in framework, acquiring the magnetic resonance data by using the pulse sequence data to control the magnetic resonance imaging system, and reconstructing a magnetic resonance image from the magnetic resonance data using the first selection of the plug-ins.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.