Abstract: A hierarchical system for use with a patient monitoring device that controls the amount of display real estate utilized for the navigation system. The system includes a graphical user interface having a navigational interface of a fixed size such that as different menu levels are navigated, the navigational interface does not intrude onto the display for the patient information. The navigational interface includes a plurality of buttons that allow the user to navigate both forward and reverse menu levels without increasing the size of the navigational interface. The graphical user interface including the plurality of navigation buttons is preferably designed for use with a touch screen application.

Abstract: A method of acquiring a graphic prescription from an operator of an imaging device comprises displaying a first two-dimensional view of a first localizer image and a second two-dimensional view of a second localizer image, and displaying a three-dimensional view of the first and second localizer images. The first and second two-dimensional views of the first and second localizer images are displayed in first and second viewing regions of a graphic prescription interface. The three-dimensional view shows the first and second localizer images relative to each other in overlapping fashion in a common viewing region of the graphic prescription interface. The method also allows a previous prescription to be displayed as a cross reference, and allows a prescription to fallback to any localizer image in a sequence of localizer images.

Abstract: A method of acquiring a graphic prescription from an operator of an imaging device comprises displaying a first two-dimensional view of a first localizer image and a second two-dimensional view of a second localizer image, and displaying a three-dimensional view of the first and second localizer images. The first and second two-dimensional views of the first and second localizer images are displayed in first and second viewing regions of a graphic prescription interface. The three-dimensional view shows the first and second localizer images relative to each other in overlapping fashion in a common viewing region of the graphic prescription interface. The method also allows a previous prescription to be displayed as a cross reference, and allows a prescription to fallback to any localizer image in a sequence of localizer images.

Abstract: 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™ to produce scan descriptions that are downloaded to the servers prior to run time using a serialization mechanism.