Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

Georg Goertler

Peter Haeuser

Rainer Alfred Kuth

Atilla Peter Kiraly

Sultan Haider

Franz Schmitt

Andre De Oliveira

Bastian Rackow

Holger Dresel

Guenter Schnur

Ali-Nejat Bengi

Torsten Horst Ludwig Schmidt

Robert Bertossi

Harald Schultz

Norbert Engels

In a method, a database system, a computer, and a medical system for the identification of faulty structural parts to be exchanged of a medical device, an identification algorithm is executed to calculate and emit an exchange data record that identifies a structural part to be exchanged, dependent on for a read-in error message from the medical device. The identification algorithm accesses a database system with a simulation model in which automatically generated error patterns (are stored in order to perform an analysis on these stored error patterns, so as to calculate the exchange data record. An error pattern is an association between the error message, an exchange data record, and an evaluation data record.

Identification of structural parts in error handling of medical devices

In a method, a computer and a medical computer for automatic failure analysis in order to provide a cause of failure of the medical imaging apparatus during operation, input data are read into the computer that include raw data or image data, acquired by the imaging apparatus. A set of performance indicators in the input data is calculated by the computer. A trained neural network system is accessed with the calculated performance indicators, in order to provide result data that, in the case of a failure, identify a failure source.

Automatic failure detection in magnetic resonance apparatuses

A system and method for optimizing customer magnetic resonance systems is provided. An automation system gathers data from a geographically dispersed network of installed magnetic resonance systems, which data is mined and analyzed in order to recognize patterns about the best practices of the installed base. Customer-specific variables for customer magnetic resonance systems are then optimized, based on the recognized patterns. More particularly, customer specific protocols and hardware/software configurations can be calculated and optimized, by making use of data mined from best-in-class customers having similar profiles.

System and method for using data obtained from a group of geographically dispersed magnetic resonance systems to optimize customer-specific clinical, operational and/or financial performance

Methods and features for providing and activating a software license in a system, such as a magnetic resonance system, are disclosed. For example, a software license is stored in the system. The system with the stored software license is sold or rented to a client. The software license is operable to be activated by or at the client.

System and method for providing and activating software licenses

A system and method of servicing a group of similar types of equipment that maybe installed at geographically separated locations is described. The method makes use of error messages produced by the equipment and service requests received by a servicing center. Data mining techniques are used to establish error patterns associated with specific failure modes so that future error messages may be processed to determine if an identified failure mode has occurred. This will enable the efficient dispatch of spare parts and service personnel to the location where the failure has occurred.

Error pattern identification in an installed base of systems

In a method for simulating the use of a system option for a technical apparatus, data from technical apparatuses that relate to the configuration and/or the usage of the apparatuses are collected, are stored in a central data bank, and relationships between collected, stored data and/or between collected, stored and additionally prescribable data are produced. The use of a system option for a technical apparatus is simulated based on the data placed in relationship to one another.

Method for simulating the use of a system option for a technical apparatus

In an image acquisition method in which there is a sensitivity characteristic over the image space that is non-uniform but that changes only slowly, this characteristic is determined according to the steps of, in the original image, intensity changes are limited to a predetermined maximum value, a low-pass filtering is applied to the auxiliary image acquired in this way, and the sensitivity characteristic of the image acquisition method over the image space is acquired from the low-pass-filtered auxiliary image.

Method for correcting the intensity of an image

A device for operating an apparatus includes a server, a central monitoring module, an apparatus for communicating between the server and the monitoring module, a plurality of control, maintenance and/or monitoring programs and an apparatus for communicating between the control, maintenance and/or monitoring programs on the one hand as well the server and/or the monitoring module on the other hand. A browser can be connected to the device so that a system for the operation of the apparatus derives therefrom. A user interface with security-related functions or interactive functions can be realized easily and with little programming outlay as a result of the invention.

Means system and method for operating an apparatus

A method for suppressing image artifacts in a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes conducting an adjustment scan of the examination subject preceding or following the scan or scans which are used to acquire the measured data. The adjustment scan differs from measuring scan in that it is implemented without the generation of a phase-coding gradient. The data acquired in the adjustment scan are interpreted to identify any inadequacies in the generation of the raw data, and correction data are calculated. Using the correction data, the raw data sets which are Fourier-transformed in the read-out direction, are then corrected. N/2 ghosts can thus be suppressed, and the influence of inhomogeneities in the static field can be reduced.

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Georg Goertler