Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services

King's College London

Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Institut National De La Sante Et De La Recherche Medicale

Siemens Healthineers Ag

Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique-Cnrs

Université De Paris

Universite Paris Cité

Institut National De La Sante Et De La Recherche Medicale (Inserm)

Univ Paris Xiii Paris-Nord Villetaneuse

Universite Paris Xiii Paris-Nord

Université Paris Xiii Paris-Nord Villetaneuse

Omar Darwish

Ralph Sinkus

Ahmed M Gharib

Wilfried Schnell

Radhouene Neji

Giacomo Annio

Tamara Elisabeth Falkner

Stephan Kannengießer

Verena Müller-Reinwald

The present disclosure is directed to a motor for a magnetic resonance (MR) tomography room, to a patient table for the MR room, to a MR elastography device, and to a MR tomography device. A MR tomography device for a MR elastography imaging protocol is arranged within the MR tomography room, and includes a rotational drive for supplying rotational energy to power a MR elastography transducer usable during the MR elastography imaging protocol, and a support structure. The rotational drive comprises a terminal for connecting the MR elastography transducer to the rotational drive, and a bearing means configured such that the position of the terminal relative to the support structure is adaptable along a trajectory predetermined by the bearing means. The rotational drive is mounted to the support structure via the bearing means.

Motor for a MR elastography transducer

The present disclosure is directed to techniques for synchronizing a rotational eccentric mass of a gravitational transducer used for a magnetic resonance elastography acquisition with a corresponding magnetic resonance elastography scan carried out by a magnetic resonance imaging system, wherein the rotation of the eccentric mass is driven by a shaft. The method includes starting the rotation of the eccentric mass at a set vibration frequency and the magnetic resonance elastography scan at a set acquisition frequency; determining the rotational position of the shaft; defining the rotational position as first reference position; calculating further reference positions. At the start time of each subsequent acquisition period, determining the current rotational position of the shaft; comparing the determined current rotational position with the theoretically expected reference position and decreasing or increasing the rotational speed of the rotational eccentric mass based on the comparison.

Method and system for synchronizing a rotational eccentric mass with a magnetic resonance elastography scan

A method and system for performing three-dimensional, 3D, magnetic resonance elastography, MRE, using a multi-slice gradient echo, GRE, imaging sequence. Four scans typically required to be performed during MRE, and during four breath-holds, are combined into a single measurement that can be performed during a single breath-hold.

Method and system for magnetic resonance elastography

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