Method and apparatus based on 3D camera for automated measurement preparation in MRI system

    公开(公告)号:US12016710B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-25

    申请号:US17233988

    申请日:2021-04-19

    摘要: The disclosure relates to techniques for scan preparation in a medical imaging system. The technique includes triggering a 3D camera acquiring a 2D color and depth image of a patient when a patient bed is at an origin position, inputting the image into a pre-trained first body information model to obtain position information of multiple body feature site points, and calculating position information of multiple candidate scanning regions in the patient bed coordinate system. The technique further includes providing the position information of the multiple candidate scanning regions to a medical imaging application apparatus, so that the medical imaging application apparatus determines position information of a current scanning region in the patient bed coordinate system and controls the patient bed to move the current scanning region to a scanning center of a medical imaging device according to the position of the patient bed relative to the scanning center.

    METHOD FOR OPERATING AN MRI SYSTEM, AN MRI SYSTEM, A CONTROL UNIT, A STORAGE UNIT, A COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND AN ELECTRONICALLY READABLE DATA CARRIER

    公开(公告)号:US20240201289A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-20

    申请号:US18519631

    申请日:2023-11-27

    发明人: Volker Schnetter

    IPC分类号: G01R33/28

    CPC分类号: G01R33/288

    摘要: A method performed by an MRI system includes: receiving at least one object parameter value of an object to be examined in accordance with a predefined MRI protocol; determining a frequency distribution of deposition values of examined objects, each having the at least one object parameter value, from available MRI examination datasets; determining, by a control unit of the MRI system, a reference deposition value of the examined objects, each having the at least one object parameter value, from the frequency distribution of the deposition values of the examined objects, each having the at least one object parameter value, for a predefined reference proportion in accordance with a predefined reference determining procedure; and determining, as a function of the reference deposition value, at least one MRI protocol parameter of the predefined MRI protocol for examining the object to be examined, in accordance with a predefined MRI protocol optimization procedure.

    Limiting RF alternating magnetic field in MRI

    公开(公告)号:US12007456B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-11

    申请号:US18079525

    申请日:2022-12-12

    IPC分类号: G01R33/32 G01R33/422

    CPC分类号: G01R33/422 G01R33/32

    摘要: A method and apparatus for limiting an RF alternating magnetic field in MRI. The method includes: measuring a perpendicular distance between a local coil placed on a scanned part of a patient and the center of a detection hole of a magnetic resonance (MR) scanner; based on the perpendicular distance, determining a deviation between the B1 field strength at the position of the local coil during an MR scan and the B1 field strength at the center of the detection hole; based on the deviation, computing a conversion coefficient for conversion between the B1 field strength at the position of the local coil and the B1 field strength at the center of the detection hole; based on the B1 field strength required when the surface temperature of the local coil is equal to a safe temperature upper limit and the conversion coefficient, computing a maximum permissible field strength of the B1 field at the center of the detection hole. The B1 field may be limited to a smaller but still effective field strength range, reducing wastage of B1 field performance while ensuring patient safety and MR imaging quality.