US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Oct. 6 for "Reducing peripheral nerve stimulation in a subject during a magnetic resonance imaging scan" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,269, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Reducing peripheral nerve stimulation in a subject during a magnetic resonance imaging scan" was invented by Wei Liu (Erlangen, Germany) and David Grodzki (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) in a subject is reduced during a magnetic resonance imaging scan of the subject using a magnetic resonance system (1) having three physical gradient axes. The magnetic resonance imaging scan is planned by selecting an imaging protocol and positioning a field-of-view of the scan obliquely through the subject. An est...