US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Dec. 2 for "Body shape estimation from localizer scan in magnetic resonance medical imaging" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,802, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Body shape estimation from localizer scan in magnetic resonance medical imaging" was invented by Yao-Jen Chang (Princeton, N.J.), Ankur Kapoor (Plainsboro, N.J.), Birgi Tamersoy (Erlangen, Germany) and David Grodzki (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In magnetic resonance imaging, shape estimation is used to limit patient burns. A localizer image or scout scan is used to determine some of the patient shape and corresponding position. A missing part, such as the arm not in the scout scan field of view, is inferred from the localizer ima...