US 12,484,802 B2
Body shape estimation from localizer scan in magnetic resonance medical imaging
Yao-Jen Chang, Princeton, NJ (US); Ankur Kapoor, Plainsboro, NJ (US); Birgi Tamersoy, Erlangen (DE); and David Grodzki, Erlangen (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed on Jan. 23, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/420,080.
Prior Publication US 2025/0235117 A1, Jul. 24, 2025
Int. Cl. A61B 5/055 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/28 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)
CPC A61B 5/055 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0037 (2013.01); A61B 5/7275 (2013.01); G01R 33/288 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] 15 Claims
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1. A method of avoiding a burn in magnetic resonance (MR) scanning, the method comprising:
acquiring a patient representation of a patient in a MR scanner from a scout scan, the scout scan for the patient representation having a field of view not including at least a portion of an arm of the patient;
inferring a shape corresponding to the portion of the arm not included in the field of view of the scout scan, the inferring being from the patient representation;
estimating a burn risk from a position of the inferred shape relative to the MR scanner; and
generating a notice based on the burn risk.