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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2025
Siemens Healthineers Ag, Forchheim, DE;
Manuel Stich, Schwandorf, DE;
Julian Richter, Hessdorf, DE;
Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim, DE;
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for preparing an MR elastography of a liver, which includes creating a photographic recording of an examination object, determining a position of the liver on the basis of the photographic recording, providing an information item regarding a target position of an oscillation generator on the basis of the position of the liver, arranging the oscillation generator on the examination object dependent upon the information regarding the target position, introducing the examination object with the oscillation generator into a patient receiving region of a magnetic resonance device, capturing overview MR image data from the examination object, and selecting an examination region for transverse slices covering at least one subregion of the liver for a recording of MRE image data on the basis of the overview MR image data.