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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2020
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Stephan Kannengiesser, Wuppertal, DE;
Robert Rehner, Neunkirchen am Brand, DE;
Stefan Popescu, Erlangen, DE;
Gudrun Ruyters, Erlangen, DE;
Markus Vester, Nuremberg, DE;
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
The disclosure relates to a field camera and a method for measuring a magnetic field distribution using a magnetic resonance tomograph and the field camera. The field camera has a number of samples, which are distributed over a spatial volume to be measured, and a number of receive antennas. In an act of the method, a sensitivity matrix for the receive antennas, for each sample at each receive antenna, is captured using the magnetic resonance tomograph. In another act, antenna signals of the samples in a magnetic field to be measured are captured by the receive antennas, using the magnetic resonance tomograph. Finally, magnetic resonance signals of the individual samples are determined from the antenna signals as a function of the sensitivity matrix, using a controller. In a further act, the magnetic field strength at the location of the samples may be determined from the magnetic resonance signals.