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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Wendt, Cleveland, OH (US);
Martin Busch, Witten, DE;
Axel Bornstedt, Berlin, DE;
Rainer Seibel, Essen, DE;
Dietrich Groenemeyer, Sprokhoevel, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600410 ; 600423 ; 600424 ; 324309 ; 324318 ;
Abstract
In a method for the location determination of a positionable object in an examination subject by means of magnetic resonance and apparatus for the implementation of the method a reference image is acquired from at least one slice of the examination subject. The current position of the subject is determined by at least one radio-frequency reception coil attached to the object. A slice position in which the reference image is updated is determined on the basis of this current position.