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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2002
Kenneth M. Fowkes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Laurence S. Mccabe, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Paul D. Miller, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David R. Mack, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ruth E. Leibig, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kenneth M. Fowkes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Laurence S. McCabe, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Paul D. Miller, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David R. Mack, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ruth E. Leibig, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
The preferred embodiments described herein provide a method and system for facilitating selection of stored medical images. In one preferred embodiment, a plurality of medical images are stored, and, for each medical image, the settings of at least one acquisition time control used to create the image are also stored. During image review, a user selects a set of acquisition time control settings, and a set of medical images is automatically selected from the stored images based on the selected set of acquisition time control settings. Other preferred embodiments are provided, and each of the preferred embodiments described herein can be used alone or in combination with one another.