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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2022
Siemens Healthineers Ag, Forchheim, DE;
Boris Mailhe, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Dorin Comaniciu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Ali Kamen, Skillman, NJ (US);
Mariappan S. Nadar, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Bin Lou, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Andreas Greiser, Erlangen, DE;
Venkata Veerendranadh Chebrolu, Rochester, MN (US);
Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim, DE;
Abstract
For autonomous MR scanning for a given medical test, a simplified MR scanner may be used without or will little input or control by a technologist (e.g., by a physician, radiologist, or person trained in MR scanner operation). The MR scanner autonomously positions, scans, checks quality, analyzes, and/or outputs an answer to a diagnostic question with or without an MR image. Scan analysis, based on artificial intelligence, allows for on-going or on-the-fly alteration of the scanning configuration to acquire the data desired to answer the diagnostic question. By using a simplified MR scanner, both position of the patient relative to the MR scanner and localization of the scan by the MR scanner are jointly solved. Sensors may sense a patient in a scan position where the reduced radio frequency requirements allow for a more open bore.