Autonomous magnetic resonance scanning for a given medical test

US12102423B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Healthineers AG · DE

Inventors

• Boris Mailhe · Plainsboro, US
• Dorin Comaniciu · Princeton Junction, US
• Ali Kamen · Skillman, US
• Mariappan S. Nadar · Plainsboro, US
• Bin Lou · Princeton Junction, US
• Andreas Greiser · Erlangen, DE
• Venkata Veerendranadh Chebrolu · Rochester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 16, 2022
• Grant date: Oct 1, 2024
• Expiry date: Jan 27, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R33/543
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

For autonomous MR scanning for a given medical test, a simplified MR scanner may be used without or will little input or control by a technologist (e.g., by a physician, radiologist, or person trained in MR scanner operation). The MR scanner autonomously positions, scans, checks quality, analyzes, and/or outputs an answer to a diagnostic question with or without an MR image. Scan analysis, based on artificial intelligence, allows for on-going or on-the-fly alteration of the scanning configuration to acquire the data desired to answer the diagnostic question. By using a simplified MR scanner, both position of the patient relative to the MR scanner and localization of the scan by the MR scanner are jointly solved. Sensors may sense a patient in a scan position where the reduced radio frequency requirements allow for a more open bore.