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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2022
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Arne Hengerer, Möhrendorf, DE;
Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim, DE;
Abstract
An instrument, a magnetic resonance imaging scanner and a method for operating the magnetic resonance imaging scanner with the instrument in which the instrument is aligned with a patient. The medical instrument comprises a first projector for projecting a luminous pointer in a predetermined alignment relative to the medical instrument. The magnetic resonance imaging scanner comprises a positioning aid configured to mark a predetermined position on an inner wall of a patient tunnel in a manner that is visible to a user. In the method, a predetermined alignment of the first projector relative to the medical instrument or position of the positioning aid on the wall of the patient tunnel is ascertained in which the luminous pointer of the first projector coincides with the positioning aid when the medical instrument is aligned parallel to a trajectory through an entry point on the patient and a target point in the patient and the medical instrument is aligned such that the luminous pointer and the positioning aid coincide.