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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2009
Applicants:
Carmel Hayes, Munich, DE;
Katrin Christel Sprung, Erlangen, DE;
Inventors:
Carmel Hayes, Munich, DE;
Katrin Christel Sprung, Erlangen, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a method and device to automatically determine a rest phase of the heart of an examination person in an imaging device, multiple images of the heart are acquired during a cardiac cycle and the rest phase of the heart is automatically determined by post-processing of the acquired images, and the determined rest phase is used for subsequent measurements.