US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Oct. 20 for "Monitoring a specific absorption rate during a magnetic resonance tomography examination with a multi-element coil" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,918, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Monitoring a specific absorption rate during a magnetic resonance tomography examination with a multi-element coil" was invented by Rene Gumbrecht (Bamberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monitoring a specific absorption rate of a subject during a magnetic resonance tomography examination with a magnetic resonance tomography system with a multi-element coil with several transmission channels, comprising the following steps: monitoring the transmission channels with an initial monitoring system to obtain initial monitoring signals; monitorin...