Abstract: A queue or media queue of music is generated by multiple listeners for playing by one or more devices. Listeners may select music using user interfaces rendered by their respective devices, and rank or vote to determine an order in which the music is played in accordance with the queue or media queue. Where a song or another media entity is accessible at a premium or only with a subscription, and one of the multiple listeners is not authorized to access the song, an unauthorized listener may be invited to purchase a subscription, or a substitute song may be selected for the unauthorized listener. Once a queue or media queue has been generated, music may be played in accordance with the queue or media queue by a single device in the presence of the multiple listeners, or by multiple devices each having any number of listeners within a vicinity.

Abstract: Synergistic queue management techniques are disclosed. The techniques can include receiving, by a server, a first queue action message, the first queue action message indicating a first queue action for a content queue associated with a client device, determining, based on the first queue action, a second queue action for the content queue, the second queue action comprising a supplemental queue action for the first queue action, and sending a second queue action message to the client device, the second queue action message indicating the second queue action.

Abstract: A queue or media queue of music is generated by multiple listeners for playing by one or more devices. Listeners may select music using user interfaces rendered by their respective devices, and rank or vote to determine an order in which the music is played in accordance with the queue or media queue. Where a song or another media entity is accessible at a premium or only with a subscription, and one of the multiple listeners is not authorized to access the song, an unauthorized listener may be invited to purchase a subscription, or a substitute song may be selected for the unauthorized listener. Once a queue or media queue has been generated, music may be played in accordance with the queue or media queue by a single device in the presence of the multiple listeners, or by multiple devices each having any number of listeners within a vicinity.

Abstract: The invention provides for a magnetic resonance imaging system (100) for acquiring magnetic resonance data (144, 146) of a subject (118) within an imaging zone (108), wherein the magnetic resonance imaging system comprises a memory storing a set of parameter ranges (150). At least a portion of the parameter ranges are user configurable.

Abstract: The invention relates to new proline derivatives of formula (I) as cGAS inhibitors, wherein wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11 and G are defined as in claim 1, and prodrugs or pharmaceutically acceptable salts of these compounds for the treatment of diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis (SSc), non-alcoholic steatotic hepatitis (NASH), interstitial lung disease (ILD) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).

Abstract: The invention relates to new proline derivatives of formula (I) as cGAS inhibitors, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10 and G are defined as in claim 1, and prodrugs or pharmaceutically acceptable salts of these compounds for the treatment of diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis (SSc), non-alcoholic steatotic hepatitis (NASH), interstitial lung disease (ILD) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).

Abstract: The invention provides for a magnetic resonance imaging system (100) for acquiring magnetic resonance data (144, 146) of a subject (118) within an imaging zone (108), wherein the magnetic resonance imaging system comprises a memory storing a set of parameter ranges (150). At least a portion of the parameter ranges are user configurable.

Abstract: A method of MR imaging of a body (10) of a patient reduces contrast blurring in PROPELLER imaging combined with multi-echo acquisitions.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance (MR) coil unit, comprising: —an MR coil body which houses at least one MR coil, the MR coil body having a front surface for facing a patient, a reverse surface opposite to the front surface, and at least one opening through the MR coil body which connects the front and reverse surfaces; —at least one MR marker located at least partly in said at least one opening in the MR coil body; and—at least one optical marker located above the reverse surface of the MR coil body.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance examination system is disclosed comprising a field probe system to measure the magnetic field distribution of the main magnetic field and gradient magnetic field. The measurements are made in an earlier configuration and yield the resultant magnetic field due to gradient switching or external causes. From the measured resultant magnetic field the response relation is derived and stored in the memory. The response relation from the memory is available for compensating activation of the gradient fields or correction in reconstruction for the response relation in reconstruction. This compensation or correction can be carried-out in a current configuration. Thus is the current configuration to field probes are needed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of a body (10) of a patient. It is an object of the invention to provide a method that reduces contrast blurring in PROPELLER imaging combined with multi-echo acquisitions.

Abstract: In a method to determine a B1 phase map for at least two excitation modes of a radio-frequency coil arrangement of a magnetic resonance apparatus, the radio-frequency coil arrangement having multiple independently controllable transmission channels, and the B1 phase map describing, with spatial resolution, the phase of radio-frequency field this is generated in a respective excitation mode relative to a common reference phase map, first magnetic resonance data describing the phase change of a basic magnetic field of the magnetic resonance apparatus between a first echo time and a second echo time are acquired, and are evaluated to determine a spatially resolved Larmor frequency value that describes the deviation from a nominal Larmor frequency of the magnetic resonance apparatus.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance examination system is disclosed comprising a field probe system to measure the magnetic field distribution of the main magnetic field and gradient magnetic field. The measurements are made in an earlier configuration and yield the resultant magnetic field due to gradient switching or external causes. From the measured resultant magnetic field the response relation is derived and stored in the memory. The response relation from the memory is available for compensating activation of the gradient fields or correction in reconstruction for the response relation in reconstruction. This compensation or correction can be carried-out in a current configuration. Thus is the current configuration to field probes are needed.

Abstract: An MR image is produced from data acquired by radiating an RF pulse and switching multiple bipolar magnetic field gradients to generate multiple gradient echoes that are acquired in a raw data set with multiple raw data lines by a reception coil, the multiple gradient echoes being acquired with bipolar magnetic field gradients of different polarity. Due to the bipolar magnetic field gradients of different polarity, in the raw data set first raw data lines are filled with MR signals in one direction in raw data space, and second raw data lines are filled with MR signals in the opposite direction.

Abstract: In order to position and simultaneously operate both a magnetic resonance (MR) coil and an ultrasound transducer adjacent to a target volume while minimizing interference between the MR coil and the ultrasound transducer, hybrid ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) devices are provided. One of the hybrid ultrasound and MRI devices includes a transducer array, a communications interface connected with the transducer array, and a housing that electromagnetically shields and encloses the transducer array and the communications interface. An electrically conducting side of the housing receives a radio frequency (RF) signal from an MRI system and transmits the RF signal to an electrically conducting side of a housing of another of the hybrid ultrasound and MRI devices.

Abstract: In magnetic resonance (MR) thermometry, first and second magnetic resonance data that are acquired sequentially, from which a phase shift is determined between a measurement phase and a reference phase. In a first region of an examined person, the measurement phase is determined from the second magnetic resonance data and the reference phase is determined from the first magnetic resonance data. In a second region of the examined person, both the reference phase and measurement phase are determined from the second magnetic resonance data. Techniques for reference-based magnetic resonance thermometry and reference-free magnetic resonance thermometry can be applied.

Abstract: A patient support apparatus is provided. The patient support apparatus may be used as an operating table apparatus for a neurosurgical intervention. The patient support apparatus includes a support couch and a transfer plate which may be moved relative to the support couch, wherein the transfer plate is designed to support a patient for the neurosurgical intervention, wherein the patient support apparatus includes a holding unit with a support shell, which is designed to support a head of the patient and/or a surgical head restraint unit, and a fastening unit for fastening the holding unit to the patient support apparatus.

Abstract: A patient positioning device has an electromagnetically transparent transfer plate for positioning an examination subject, and at least one patient bed. The electromagnetically transparent transfer plate can be disposed on the patient bed for imaging an examination region of the examination subject with a first imaging device. For imaging the examination region of the examination subject with the second imaging device that has an electromagnetic localization device, the electromagnetically transparent transfer plate is disposed above the electromagnetic localization device. An imaging system and a corresponding method for medical imaging make use of such a patient position device.

Abstract: In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) system for the creation of an artifact-free image data set of an imaging area located in a measurement volume of the MR system, measurement data are acquired from which an image data is to be reconstructed, with gradients for spatially coding of the measurement data are ramped continuously over time to a strength desired for the acquisition of the measurement data, without abrupt changes in the gradient strength. The actual gradients present in the measurement volume are measured by a field mapping device in the measurement volume of the MR system. The trajectories along which k-space is scanned during the acquisition of the measurement data are calculated on the basis of the measured actual gradients. An artifact-free image data set is reconstructed from the acquired measurement data under consideration of the calculated trajectories, and is displayed and/or stored.

Abstract: A method for stable support of a needle to be introduced into a patient, a body to be penetrated by the needle is arranged on the patient. The body is made of a substance corresponding in terms of its mechanical properties to body tissue (in particular corresponding to body tissue in terms of visco-elastic coefficients and density) and/or is made of a gel-like substance.