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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2022
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Ulrich Wolfgang Katscher, Norderstedt, DE;
Peter Koken, Hamburg, DE;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A device is provided for detecting critical stations in a multi-station scan. The device includes an input unit, a processing unit, and an output unit. The input unit is configured to receive image data taken from a patient lying on a table before start of a diagnostic scan with a magnetic resonance imaging system. The processing unit is configured to analyze the image data of the patient to identify a spatial location of the lungs of the patient to align the spatial location of the lungs of the patient with a planned multi-station scan to identify the critical stations that are potentially affected by a respiratory motion of the patient, and to assign breath-hold to the identified critical stations. The output unit is configured to provide the identified critical stations. Thus, the selection of critical stations can be automatically and consistently satisfied without operator intervention.