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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2004
John I. Jackson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Lewis J. Thomas, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cynthia L. Kerby, Carnation, WA (US);
Laurence S. Mccabe, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David R. Dewitt, Livermore, CA (US);
John I. Jackson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Lewis J. Thomas, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cynthia L. Kerby, Carnation, WA (US);
Laurence S. McCabe, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David R. DeWitt, Livermore, CA (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
The embodiments described herein relate to stepping through the stages of a protocol using an input device and a protocol controller for a medical diagnostic imaging system. The protocol controller may be operative to transition from one stage to a next stage in the protocol in response to no more than a single input from the input device. Thus, a single input from the input device may indicate to the protocol controller to transition to each of the stages of the protocol. In one embodiment, the same single input, such as a stage transition input, is received to transition to each stage of the at least two sequential stages. In another embodiment, different single input, such as different keys on a keyboard, may be used to transition to different stages of the at least two sequential stages. Other embodiments are provided, and each of the embodiments described herein can be used alone or in combination with one another.