US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Aug. 25 for "Method and system for generating dental images from MRI-data" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,931, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and system for generating dental images from MRI-data" was invented by Carmel Hayes (Munich), Michaela Schmidt (Uttenreuth, Germany), Andreas Greiser (Erlangen, Germany), Jens Wetzl (Erlangen, Germany) and Marion Hellinger (Uttenreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and controller for generating dental images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data are described. The method may include acquiring scout magnetic resonance (MR) images of a head, including a number of teeth of an upper and/or a lower jaw; automatical...