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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2024
Siemens Healthineers Ag, Forchheim, DE;
Philipp Roser, Erlangen, DE;
Marcus Pfister, Bubenreuth, DE;
Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim, DE;
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for predetermining a location and/or a thickness of a slice, to be imaged of a patient during a tomosynthesis imaging to be parameterized by an imaging facility comprising the steps of obtaining three-dimensional image data of a preceding tomosynthesis imaging or of another three-dimensional imaging of the patient, wherein the three-dimensional image data depicts at least one part of an object located at least partly within the patient, evaluating the three-dimensional image data for establishing the location of a longitudinal axis of the object along which the part of the object extends, and establishing the location and/or the thickness of the slice to be imaged as a function of the established location of the longitudinal axis in such a way that the slice to be imaged images a predetermined target position within the patient and at least one longitudinal section of the object when the longitudinal axis of the object is located in the established location.