US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Nov. 3 for "Rapid specific absorption rate estimation in magnetic resonance medical imaging" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,475, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Rapid specific absorption rate estimation in magnetic resonance medical imaging" was invented by Boris Mailhe (Plainsboro, N.J.), Daniel Niederlohner (Erlangen, Germany), Daniel Rinck (Forchheim, Germany) and David Grodzki (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For estimating SAR in MR scanning, a value for a SAR metric is determined from patient measurements, such as a depth camera image of the outer surface of a patient. A machine-learned model is used in the determination, such as for segmenting different tissue types with different ele...