REMOTE MAINTENANCE OF MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICES

摘要

A medical imaging device that uses electromagnetic or acoustic information to generate a patient image is remotely maintained. A set of operational characteristics for the device is maintained by a maintenance system disposed remotely from the device. Data from sensors disposed local to the device are received over a network at the maintenance system. A set of parameter measures is derived from the received data and analyzed in comparison with the set of operational characteristics to identify a predicted malfunction of a component of the device. The maintenance system is thus able to initiate a repair of the medical imaging device by generating an alert in response to identification of the predicted malfunction.

主权项

1. A method of remotely maintaining a medical imaging device adapted to use electromagnetic or acoustic information to generate an image of at least a portion of a body of a patient, the method comprising:
maintaining, at a maintenance system disposed remotely from the medical imaging device, a set of operational characteristics for the medical imaging device; receiving, over a network at the maintenance system, data from a plurality of sensors disposed local to the medical imaging device; deriving, with the maintenance system, a set of parameter measures from the received data; analyzing, with the maintenance system, the derived parameter measures in comparison with the set of operational characteristics to identify a predicted malfunction of a component of the medical imaging device; and initiating, with the maintenance system, a repair of the medical imaging device by generating an alert in response to identification of the predicted malfunction.