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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2019
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Stefan Popescu, Erlangen, DE;
Lawrence Wald, Cambridge, MA (US);
Bruce Rosen, Lexington, MA (US);
Jason Stockmann, Cambridge, MA (US);
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed related to increasing prior limits imposed on MR gradient switching speed (dB/dt) without causing significant discomfort or severe pain perception to patients. The technique disclosed herein do so by modifying the pulsing gradient fields that are ordinarily available for MR imaging protocols. Doing so stimulates the peripheral nerves and thus enables a quick, reversible, and complete inhibition of action potential propagation through the stimulated region of tissue, referred to as a nerve conduction block.