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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2020
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Martin Harder, Nuremberg, DE;
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
In a method and system for automatically positioning a region of interest of a patient for a medical imaging examination in an isocenter of a medical imaging apparatus, the region of interest of the patient is brought into a patient receiving region of the medical imaging examination for a position-determination measurement, a position-determination measurement is performed to capture position-determination image data, the position-determination image data is analyzed to determine a position of the region of interest of the patient from the position-determination image data, and the patient is automatically positioned such that the position of the region of interest of the patient coincides with the position of the isocenter of the medical imaging apparatus.