Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

Siemens Healthineers Ag

Siemens Energy Global Gmbh & Co. Kg

The Johns Hopkins University

The General Hospital Corporation

Siemens Aktiengeschaft

Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corporation

Thomas Beck

Silke Settegast

Nigel-Philip Cox

Himanshu Bhat

Mario Zeller

Georg Bostanjoglo

Dominik Bernhardt

Oliver Katzurke

Richard Zimmermann

Thorsten Feiweier

Rolf Wilkenhöner

Stefanie Gügel-Wild

Jan Kretschmer

Andrea Massa

Christina Biermann

Martin Seifert

Marcel Krügerke

Sven Kreuziger

Stephan Biber

Stefan Popescu

Hong Li

Andreas Greiser

Thorsten Speckner

Flavio Carinci

Swen Campagna

Rainer Schneider

Matthias Gebhardt

Ralph Reiche

Andreas Böttcher

Martin Harder

Adrian Mark Thomas

Daniel Polak

Christian Tietjen

Eckart Schumann

Esther Raithel

Daniel Nicolas Splitthoff

Dingxin Wang

Winfried Esser

Giuseppe Gaio

Keith Aaron Heberlein

Francis-Jurjen Ladru

Uvo Hoelscher

Jan Fritz

Uwe Paul

Michael Mallett

Rudolf Küperkoch

Andre Jan Willem Van Der Kouwe

Christian Amann

Stefan Dahlke

Philipp Höcht

Matthew Tisdall

Steffen Schroeter

Lutz Wolkers

Jens Dietrich

Sven Helmecke

Tim Richter

Björn Beckmann

Rostislav Teteruk

Marianne Köferl

Christian Godenschwager

Marcel Vollgold

Sushant Mainali

Carina Moratz

Bernd Maciejewski

Annette Stein

Michael Schneider

Tobias Kotulla

Miriam Bauer

Benjamin Lippke

Marcus Mensing

Rolf Wilkenhoener

Sebastian Hohenstein

Florian Meise

Stefan Schwamm

A method for operating a magnetic resonance tomography system and a magnetic resonance tomography system for executing the method are provided. The magnetic resonance tomography system captures a change in state using a control system, assesses the change in state with respect to a possible operating interruption, and determines possible energy-saving scenarios for the possible imminent interruption of the image recording. The magnetic resonance tomography system captures a selection made by a user and implements the selected energy-saving scenario.

Magnetic resonance tomography system and method for energy-saving operation of the magnetic resonance tomography system

Magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus and a monitoring unit, wherein the MR apparatus includes: a scanner unit to acquire medical MR data; a patient receiving region surrounded at least in part by the scanner unit; a patient positioning apparatus having a patient table designed to be movable into the patient receiving region; a position acquisition unit to acquire position data of a position of the patient table and/or of an object positioned on the patient table, wherein the position acquisition unit comprises a camera; and a setting unit operable, based on a provided setting parameter, to set the position of the patient table and/or of the object on the patient table, wherein the monitoring unit is designed so as, with the acquired position data, to provide the setting parameter for setting a position of the patient table and/or of the object on the patient table.

Setting a position of a patient table or an object positioned on the patient table

A method for producing a plurality of holes in a curved surface, wherein the individual holes are removed layer by layer, the first layers to be removed of the holes being arranged at different distances in a Z-direction of the laser, the holes each being processed in a specific focal position, wherein only the holes detected from the same focal position are processed.

Procedure for laser drilling a plurality of holes on the basis of the focal position

A cleaning unit for cleaning a housing of a medical imaging apparatus surrounding a patient receiving area, including at least one cleaning element, wherein the at least one cleaning element has an annular carrier structure, and a diameter of the cleaning element comprises at least one value of a diameter of the housing surrounding the patient receiving area.

Cleaning unit and a medical imaging apparatus with a cleaning unit

A trustworthy component for a control path of a magnetic resonance apparatus and a magnetic resonance apparatus with at least one trustworthy component are provided. The trustworthy component is configured to be arranged in a control path of a safety-relevant function of a magnetic resonance apparatus, so that when the trustworthy component is arranged in the control path, the control path is, at least in parts, non-trustworthy.

Trustworthy component for a control path of a magnetic resonance apparatus

Method for the operation of a cleaning system of a medical imaging facility, wherein the imaging facility has an outer useful surface exposed to contaminating effects of patients and/or operators. During a utilization phase for an examination procedure of a patient, sensor data of a sensor arrangement detecting at least a portion of the useful surface is acquired and by evaluation of the sensor data, a surface map having potentially contaminated regions of the useful surface is determined. During a cleaning phase following the utilization phase, cleaning information of the potentially contaminated regions are output to a cleaner and/or used for actuation of at least one cleaning apparatus of the imaging facility for targeted cleaning of the potentially contaminated regions.

Cleaning system of a medical imaging facility

An embodiment of a method for recording diagnostic measurement data of a knee of an examination object in knee imaging by a magnetic resonance device, includes performing an overview scan of the knee of the examination object, wherein overview measurement data is acquired in the overview scan, and performing diagnostic scans of the knee of the examination object based on the acquired overview measurement data, wherein two-dimensional diagnostic measurement data is acquired in the diagnostic scans.

Method for recording diagnostic measurement data of a knee of an examination object in knee imaging by a magnetic resonance device

A method and device for coating a component wherein the cooling fluid ducts contained in the component have to be reopened following the coating step. The component has a first region and a second region, where the first region includes at least one cooling fluid opening having an adjoining cooling fluid channel and where the first region is to be coated with a coating material which is not to be applied in the second region.

Device and method for removing coating material from openings in a part

A magnetic resonance imaging system comprises a field generation unit and a supporting structure for providing structural support for the field generation unit, wherein the field generation unit comprises at least one magnet for generating a B0 magnetic field and an opening configured to provide access to an imaging volume positioned in the B0 magnetic field along at least one direction and wherein the at least one direction is angled with respect to a main direction of magnetic field lines of the B0 magnetic field in the imaging volume.

Magnetic resonance scanner and magnetic resonance imaging system

A method for coating a part having a surface that has cooling fluid openings that adjoin cooling fluid ducts inside the part. A device analyzes the surface of a part having a surface that has cooling fluid openings which adjoin cooling fluid ducts inside the part, the device being usable in the aforementioned method. The disclosed device and/or the disclosed method is used during the manufacturing and/or overhauling of parts of a turbomachine.

Device and method for analyzing the surface of parts having cooling fluid openings

A medical imaging apparatus, and a sensor arrangement for acquiring at least one item of patient movement information during a medical imaging examination, have at least one sensor element and a support apparatus, with the at least one sensor element arranged on the support apparatus. The support apparatus has a positioning element for positioning the support apparatus and at least one strut-like support element on which the at least one sensor element is removably arranged.

Medical imaging apparatus and sensor arrangement therefor for acquiring at least one item of patient movement information during a medical imaging examination

A method is for processing a cooling hole on a workpiece with laser. The cooling hole includes a shaped hole section. The method includes emitting a first laser pulse to a rough processing part in the position of the shaped hole section to be processed on the workpiece according to the geometrical parameters of the shaped hole section so as to remove the material of the workpiece; and emitting a second laser pulse to the processing allowance part beyond the rough processing part of the shaped hole section to be processed according to the geometrical parameters of the shaped hole section so as to remove the material allowance of the workpiece on the processing allowance part. The energy of the first laser pulse is relatively larger than that of the second laser pulse.

Method and device for processing cooling hole on workpiece with laser

Method for MR imaging of an acquisition region during a patient examination. In order to determine a point spread function, in a prior measurement for each of additional gradient output directions, the method includes choosing, in the acquisition region, a slice lying outside of an isocenter of the MR device, which slice extends in a plane perpendicular to the additional gradient output direction under consideration; following a respective slice-selective excitation of the selected slice, acquiring first calibration data using the additional gradient pulse of the additional gradient output direction under consideration, and acquiring second calibration data omitting the additional gradient pulse in each case along a k-space line, wherein a same timing sequence of additional gradient pulse and readout time window is used as in the MR sequence; and calculating, from the first and second calibration data, the point spread function for the additional gradient output direction under consideration.

Magnetic resonance imaging using additional gradient pulses

In a magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus for generating a number of image data sets of an image recording region of an examination object, at least one set of reference magnetic resonance raw data is acquired from the image recording region. Furthermore, a number of magnetic resonance raw data sets are acquired temporally sequentially. At least some of the magnetic resonance raw data sets are recorded with an SMS image recording sequence and a number of image data sets are reconstructed on the basis of the acquired magnetic resonance raw data sets. A number of SMS image data sets are each reconstructed on the basis of one of the magnetic resonance raw data sets recorded with an SMS image recording sequence, and each on the basis of one and the same set of reference magnetic resonance raw data.

Method and apparatus for accelerated generation of a series of magnetic resonance images with simultaneous multislice imaging

An ICA to identify a large number of candidate correlation patterns is carried out based on a time series of image data. The large number of candidate correlation patterns includes a large number of neurophysical events, as well as false patterns owing to noise. The neurophysical events as well as the false patterns are then separated, for example on the basis of a metric, which indicates an intensity of the candidate correlation patterns in a section of the brain, or by a computer-implemented classifier. Techniques of this kind can be used in conjunction with functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Method and apparatus for functional magnetic resonance imaging

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