US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Jan. 27 for "Preparing an MR elastography with an MR elastography apparatus" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,028, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Preparing an MR elastography with an MR elastography apparatus" was invented by Manuel Stich (Schwandorf, Germany) and Julian Richter (Hessdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for preparing an MR elastography of a liver, which includes creating a photographic recording of an examination object, determining a position of the liver on the basis of the photographic recording, providing an information item regarding a target position of an oscillation generator on the basis of the position of the liver, arranging the os...