Method and medical imaging apparatus of determining time windows in a scan sequence

US10061001B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Benner · Erlangen, DE
• Swen Campagna · Engelthal, DE
• Thorsten Feiweier · Peising, DE
• Bernd Kuehn · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Thorsten Speckner · Erlangen, DE
• Peter Speier · Erlangen, DE
• Daniel Nico Splitthoff · Uttenreuth, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 2015
• Grant date: Aug 28, 2018
• Expiry date: Nov 4, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R33/46
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method for determining time windows in a scan sequence, in which values of setting parameters of a scan can be changed during a current scan without adversely affecting the scan data obtained with the scan, comprising the following a scan sequence is loaded into a control computer, that then determines the time windows in the scan sequence in which values of setting parameters can be changed during a current scan, on the basis of an analysis of useful coherences in the scan sequence. The determined time windows are stored or processed so as to be available to operate an imaging apparatus to execute the scan sequence.