US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Feb. 18 for "Method for improved positioning of slices in which measurement data is to be recorded using a magnetic resonance system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,628, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Method for improved positioning of slices in which measurement data is to be recorded using a magnetic resonance system" was invented by David Grodzki (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method to improved positioning of slices in which measurement data is to be recorded, a planning image of an examination object is provided that has been distortion-corrected using non-linearity data describing a non-linearity of a gradient unit of the magnetic resonance system, a desired field of view and desired slices in the at least one planni...