US 11,940,518 B2
Method and apparatus for imaging a jaw region
Andreas Greiser, Erlangen (DE); Carmel Hayes, Munich (DE); and Mario Zeller, Erlangen (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG, Erlangen (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/704,874.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 203 136.6 (DE), filed on Mar. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0308144 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G01V 3/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/483 (2006.01); G01R 33/54 (2006.01)
CPC G01R 33/543 (2013.01) [A61B 5/004 (2013.01); G01R 33/4838 (2013.01); A61B 5/4542 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for providing an image of a diagnostically relevant area of a jaw region of a patient via a magnetic resonance apparatus, comprising:
receiving, via a computing unit, information associated with the jaw region of the patient, the received information comprising at least one reference to a position and/or an extent of the diagnostically relevant area of the jaw region;
adjusting, via the computing unit a parameter of a magnetic resonance measurement as a function of the received information;
executing, via the computing unit, the magnetic resonance measurement with the adjusted parameter;
receiving, via the computing unit, image data of the jaw region of the patient;
reconstructing, via the computing unit, an image of the diagnostically relevant area of the jaw region as a function of the received image data;
generating, via the computing unit, the image of the diagnostically relevant area of the jaw region of the patient; and
presenting, via a display, the image of the diagnostically relevant area of the jaw region of the patient.