Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Jeffrey A Hallett

Hugo Bertelsen

Jody L Garrard

David E Coles

Horace H Hines

Steven M Jones

Douglas Murray

Sunil Kulkarni

A nuclear camera is provided with an open and flexible software architecture which enables users to readily understand, modify, and exchange data files. In a constructed embodiment the software architecture utilizes xml files which can be defined and read by a user using readily available tools and viewers. Both control data and image data can be formatted in this manner. An illustrated software architecture contains a directory of manufacturer-supplied xml control files, and a directory of user modified or created xml control files. This software architecture enables users to exchange protocol and image information over conventional communications networks such as the Internet.

Nuclear camera with open and flexible software architecture

The invention comprises a system and method for multi-planar imaging using a plurality of detectors coupled to an ECDAS. Each of the plurality of detectors is independently positionable and configurable to acquire image data of one or more patients, and is controlled by the ECDAS. The ECDAS operates in at least two modes. A first mode, the ECDAS configures the plurality of detectors to collect image data for a single procedure of a single patient. A second mode, ECDAS configures the plurality of detectors to collect image data of a plurality of patients simultaneously.

Method and apparatus for a multi-planar imaging system

A gamma camera system is described having a user interface by which protocols can be set up for the simultaneous acquisition of different views. Pull-down menus prevent the selection of incompatible simultaneous views for acquisition. The protocol being assembled, including its sequential steps and multiple simultaneous views, are displayed to the user.

User interface for a gamma camera which acquires multiple simultaneous data sets

A gamma camera is provided in which the study protocol can be modified after the study has commenced and while event data is being acquired. In such a camera, study parameters such as the duration of the study, the number of image frames acquired, or the count criterion required to produce an image may be changed dynamically as the study proceeds. Thus, a nuclear study which is seen to be leading to unsatisfactory or less than optimal results may be altered during acquisition to increase the likelihood that diagnostically useful results will be produced.

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Livermore, CA, United States of America

Jeffrey A Hallett