US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on May 13 for "Device and method for real-time 3D distortion correction of magnetic resonance images" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,368, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Device and method for real-time 3D distortion correction of magnetic resonance images" was invented by Florian Maier (Buckenhof, Germany) and Martin Requardt (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance tomography device and a method for equalized mapping in real time are provided. A first slice and a second slice are captured in three-dimensional (3D) encoding, where the first slice and the second slice are oriented to one another at an angle, and an instrument or trajectory to be mapped lies in an intersecting set of bot...