Ge Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC

General Electric Company

Mark T Radick

Josef P Debbins

Robert H Haworth

Paul Edgar Licato

William James Balloni

Graeme Colin McKinnon

Jason Andrew Polzin

Ajeetkumar Gaddipati

Lawrence E Ploetz

Kristine Gould

Bo Pettersson

Roshy James Francis

Deepa Thomas

Giora Sat

Ajeet Gaddipati

Gabriel Fernandez

Conrad J Dirckx

A workstation is programmed to operate as an application development system for a medical imaging system. Objects programmed in an object-oriented language are selected from a component library using a visual component assembler which enables them to be dragged from a framework area on a display to a workspace area. Properties of selected components may be edited, and the resulting collection of components may be graphically linked together and saved as an application program.

Graphic application development system for a medical imaging system

A system and method for a hardware configuration and interfacing in a component-based environment for a medical imaging system is disclosed. Specifically, the invention directed to software architecture for the control of medical imaging system hardware is disclosed. The architecture can be logically divided into four elements: a system hardware control to provide system hardware availability information and control, a system configuration control to provide hardware constraint information, an application prescription control to identify hardware capabilities requested by a user-selected application and configure hardware settings for the system hardware, and an application hardware control to enable the application to exert control over the system hardware during execution. The architecture allows application software to be independent from hardware control software.

Hardware configuration and interfacing in a component-based environment for a medical scanner

A sequence description defining the events for traversing k-space during a medical imaging scan is defined through a k-space graphical view, thereby providing an easy programming interface for MR physicists. From the k-space view, data elements can be generated by object-oriented sequence description components in the form of predefined sequences. The data elements generated by the predefined sequences are stored in a table, the lines in the table defining an ordered list of pulse segments associated with each trajectory in k-space, the table can also hold information on time ordering or sequencing of k-space trajectories, desired triggering for each k-space trajectory and similar data objects. The k-space description/configuration of sequences is then translated to a group of downloadable sequence components.

K-space based graphic application development system for a medical imaging system

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.

Data transfer system in multi-server medical imaging systems

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. The workstation is programmed in Java&trade; to produce scan descriptions that are downloaded to the servers prior to run time using a serialization mechanism.

System architecture for medical imaging systems

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