US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Feb. 17 for "Method for optimizing a protocol for operating a magnetic resonance device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,971, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for optimizing a protocol for operating a magnetic resonance device" was invented by Dominik Paul (Bubenreuth, Germany), Mario Zeller (Erlangen, Germany) and Flavio Carinci (Wurzburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for optimizing protocol parameters of an MR protocol are provided. The techniques provides for a combined safety/operability test gradient-specific gradient factors Fx already determined prior to the performance of a test on an MR protocol and noise optimization of the MR protocol by means of a noise optimizatio...