Imaging Apparatus Respiratory-State Control for Stable Recording
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing imaging technologies fail to account for individual patient respiratory characteristics, leading to suboptimal recording quality due to involuntary patient movements and increased operator workload in adjusting recording instructions.
Innovation Solution
An imaging apparatus that uses sensor data to determine a patient's respiratory state and adapt recording and instruction methods based on individual patient characteristics, ensuring optimal recording conditions are met.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the imaging apparatus gives fixed breathing instructions to the patient without monitoring respiratory characteristics, then the recording method can be initiated manually by the operator, but the patient is forced to deviate from their natural breathing rhythm causing restlessness and movements that reduce recording quality
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors the patient's respiratory characteristics using sensors and provides real-time feedback by adapting breathing instructions to the patient's actual breathing phase and rate. This closed-loop feedback ensures that instructions are given at appropriate moments in the breathing cycle, preventing patient restlessness while maintaining recording quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the breathing instructions based on the patient's changing respiratory state. Instead of fixed, static instructions, the system modifies timing and content of instructions according to real-time monitoring of breathing phase and rate, making the interaction adaptive to individual patient characteristics.
2Reliability
If the operator manually monitors the patient and gives breathing instructions, then the recording quality can be optimized, but additional work is required from the operator
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic monitoring of respiratory characteristics and generation of adapted breathing instructions without requiring manual operator intervention. The control facility automatically processes sensor data, determines breathing phase and rate, and generates appropriate instructions, freeing the operator from this task while maintaining optimized recording quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The manual monitoring and instruction-giving task is replaced by an automated control system that uses sensors and algorithms to monitor respiratory characteristics and generate breathing instructions. This substitution of manual mechanical monitoring with an automated electronic system reduces operator workload while maintaining or improving recording quality.
3Reliability
If the patient is forced to hold their breath for extended periods to follow instructions, then recording quality may improve, but the patient experiences restlessness and movements that counteract the quality improvement
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses periodic breathing instructions synchronized with the patient's natural breathing cycle rather than requiring prolonged breath-holding. By timing instructions to coincide with natural exhalation phases and using periodic monitoring, the system achieves recording quality improvement through shorter, more natural breath-hold periods aligned with the patient's respiratory rhythm.
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AI summary
The disclosure relates to techniques for operating an imaging apparatus, which includes receiving sensor data via a control facility of the imaging apparatus. The sensor data describes sensor values relating to a patient to be examined. The technique further includes determining a state of the patient to be examined by the control facility based on the sensor data, and checking the state of the patient to be examined for fulfillment of a predetermined recording condition for carrying out a recording method by a recording facility of the imaging apparatus. Upon fulfillment of the predetermined recording condition, a recording facility is triggered by the control facility to carry out the recording method, and a recording is performed by the recording facility. The recording method comprises recording at least one recording of a recording area of the patient to be examined.