Abstract: A method of managing medical information is disclosed. Medical image data is received, at a real-time transfer engine, at the same time that the patient is being scanned by a medical imaging device. The medical image data is then converted to a browser-compatible image format at a converter engine connected to receive the medical image data from the real-time transfer engine. The converter engine comprises a decoder engine for extracting image pixel data from the medical image data and an encoding engine for converting the image pixel data to a browser-compatible format connected to receive the image pixel data. The image pixel data may be converted to a browser compatible format without loss of diagnostic data.

Abstract: Methods for achieving suppression of blood pool signal to image contrast-enhanced organs and vascular walls using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging technology. MRI data is then acquired with phase sensitive reconstruction so that blood pool signal is suppressed compared with the tissues of interest.

Abstract: A method of managing medical information is disclosed. Medical image data is received, at a real-time transfer engine, at the same time that the patient is being scanned by a medical imaging device. The medical image data is then converted to a browser-compatible image format at a converter engine connected to receive the medical image data from the real-time transfer engine. The converter engine comprises a decoder engine for extracting image pixel data from the medical image data and an encoding engine for converting the image pixel data to a browser-compatible format connected to receive the image pixel data. The image pixel data may be converted to a browser compatible format without loss of diagnostic data.

Abstract: Methods for achieving suppression of blood pool signal to image contrast-enhanced organs and vascular walls using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging technology. After administration of e.g., an intravenous contrast agent, an RF pulse sequence is applied that includes a preparatory section designed to modify signal from organ tissue differently than blood pool signal, followed by an inversion RF pulse. MR signals are then allowed to evolve during a wait time that is sufficiently long to permit tissue species with dissimilar T1 relaxation times to separate in signal yet short enough so that blood signal has greater negative magnetization than other tissues of interest. MRI data is then acquired with phase sensitive reconstruction so that blood pool signal is suppressed compared with the tissues of interest.

Abstract: A method of managing medical images is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of modalities, displaying to a user at a client computer a selection comprising images associated with at least two different modalities, and, in response to the user selection, simultaneously displaying at the client computer images corresponding to at least two different modalities.

Abstract: A method of managing medical information is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, at a first computer, requests for medical information from a second computer. The first computer responds by sending a set of instructions to the second computer. The instructions are sufficient to allow the second computer to automatically retrieve the requested medical information from a third computer.

Abstract: Methods and systems for obtaining intravascular magnetic resonance images of blood flow are disclosed. In preferred forms, a train of radio frequency (RF) pulses is produced by an intravascularly introduced RF transmitter positioned in proximate location to the blood flow so as to create a continuous stream of coherently excited protons of the blood flow. The coherently excited protons of the blood flow are sampled as the protons freely precess while flowing through a region of three dimensional space unaffected by the ongoing intravascular RF excitation. An image of the sampled coherently excited protons may then be constructed.

Abstract: A method of suppressing artifacts arising from tissue, fluids, or other long-T1 species when acquiring magnetic resonance data with a segmented pulse sequence that assumes that magnetization is at steady state, said method including suppressing artifacts by producing an artifact suppression module (ASM) before the segmented sequence, the artifact suppression module comprising at least one selective, non-selective, or volume-selective suppression pulse and a time delay.

Abstract: A method of managing medical information is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving medical information in a format incompatible with the World Wide Web and converting the medical information to a format compatible with the World Wide Web. Further, the medical information is physically stored at a single location.

Abstract: Medical image management system to allow any conventional Internet browser to function as a medical workstation. The system may be used to convert medical images from a plurality of image formats to browser compatible format. The Invention also relates to methods to manipulate digital medical images in such a way that multiple imaging modalities from multiple different vendors can be assembled into a database of Internet standard web pages without loss of diagnostic information.

Abstract: A method for creating a magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) image including the steps of acquiring a magnetic resonance image in which a predetermined slice is excited using a train of radiofrequency (RF) pulses; and acquiring image data between the RF pulses such that the excited slice is viewable from a side view rather than from a face view. An MRA image generated by the steps of acquiring a magnetic resonance image in which a predetermined slice is excited using a train of radiofrequency (RF) pulses; acquiring image data between the RF pulses; viewing a side view of the slice, including dynamic spins within and exiting the slice.

Abstract: Medical image management system to allow any conventional Internet browser to function as a medical workstation. The system may be used to convert medical images from a plurality of image formats to browser compatible format. The invention also relates to methods to manipulate digital medical images in such a way that multiple imaging modalities from multiple different vendors can be assembled into a database of Internet standard web pages without loss of diagnostic information.

Abstract: A method for creating a magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) image including the steps of acquiring a magnetic resonance image in which a predetermined slice is excited using a train of radiofrequency (RF) pulses; and acquiring image data between the RF pulses such that the excited slice is viewable from a side view rather than from a face view. An MRA image generated by the steps of acquiring a magnetic resonance image in which a predetermined slice is excited using a train of radiofrequency (RF) pulses; acquiring image data between the RF pulses; viewing a side view of the slice, including dynamic spins within and exiting the slice.

Abstract: Medical image management system to allow any conventional Internet browser to function as a medical workstation. The system may be used to convert medical images from a plurality of image formats to browser compatible format. The invention also relates to methods to manipulate digital medical images in such a way that multiple imaging modalities from multiple different vendors can be assembled into a database of Internet standard web pages without loss of diagnostic information.