Abstract: The disclosure relates to a magnetic resonance apparatus with a scanner, a patient receiving area surrounded at least in part by the scanner, a monitoring user interface in which monitoring and/or control of a magnetic resonance examination may be performed by a user, a patient interface, which is arranged within the scanner, and a data transceiver configured to transmit data between the patient interface and the monitoring user interface. The data transceiver may include at least one cable unit. Within the scanner, the at least one cable unit may include optical fibers.

Abstract: A method of scanning an organ structure of a patient using magnetic resonance imaging, includes scanning, in a first scanning process, the patient to obtain first image data indicative of at least the organ structure of the patient. The method further includes determining, based on the first image data, one or more parameters obtain second image data indicative of at least the organ structure of the patient. The first scanning process includes a first quality of imaging scan, the second scanning process includes a second quality of imaging scan, and the first quality of imaging scan is higher than the second quality of imaging scan.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for visualizing interactions in an extended reality (XR) scene, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a first dataset representing an XR scene including a technical device; displaying the XR scene on an XR headset or a head-mounted display (HMD); providing a room for a user wearing the XR headset or HMD for interacting with the XR scene, wherein the room includes a set of optical sensors including at least one optical sensor at a fixed location relative to the room; detecting optical sensor data of the user as a second dataset while the user is interacting with the XR scene in the room; and fusing the first dataset and the second dataset to generate a third dataset.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for visualizing interactions in an extended reality (XR) scene, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a first dataset representing an XR scene including a technical device; displaying the XR scene on an XR headset or a head-mounted display (HMD); providing a room for a user wearing the XR headset or HMD for interacting with the XR scene, wherein the room includes a set of optical sensors including at least one optical sensor at a fixed location relative to the room; detecting optical sensor data of the user as a second dataset while the user is interacting with the XR scene in the room; and fusing the first dataset and the second dataset to generate a third dataset.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hygiene cover for preventing a contamination of a target surface of a medical imaging device. The hygiene cover is configured for reversibly attaching to the target surface of the medical imaging device and/or a body region of a patient, and the reversible attachment is configured to provide for maintaining a predefined relative position of the hygiene cover to the medical imaging device.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for visualizing interactions in an extended reality (XR) scene, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a first dataset representing an XR scene including a technical device; displaying the XR scene on an XR headset or a head-mounted display (HMD); providing a room for a user wearing the XR headset or HMD for interacting with the XR scene, wherein the room includes a set of optical sensors including at least one optical sensor at a fixed location relative to the room; detecting optical sensor data of the user as a second dataset while the user is interacting with the XR scene in the room; and fusing the first dataset and the second dataset to generate a third dataset.

Abstract: In a method for masking one or more regions surrounding an anatomical region of interest for each of one or more MRI images obtained from MRI imaging data, the one or more regions surrounding the anatomical region of interest are masked based on control data determined for identifying the anatomical region of interest in the MRI imaging data. The MRI imaging data may be obtained during an MRI exam of a patient for a measurement volume including the anatomical region of interest. The anatomical region of interest may be ascertained before performing the MRI exam.

Abstract: A method of scanning an organ structure of a patient using magnetic resonance imaging, includes scanning, in a first scanning process, the patient to obtain first image data indicative of at least the organ structure of the patient. The method further includes determining, based on the first image data, one or more parameters obtain second image data indicative of at least the organ structure of the patient. The first scanning process includes a first quality of imaging scan, the second scanning process includes a second quality of imaging scan, and the first quality of imaging scan is higher than the second quality of imaging scan.

Abstract: In a method for performing a magnetic resonance measurement of an organ structure of a patient using a magnetic resonance imaging system adapted to the imaging of the organ structure: a correct positioning of the organ structure of the patient is ascertained, a correct positioning of the magnetic resonance imaging system with regard to the positioning of the organ structure of the patient is ascertained, a magnetic resonance scanning protocol is selected, a spatial coverage of the magnetic resonance measurement with regard to the organ structure to be imaged is adjusted, and the magnetic resonance measurement is performed to acquire magnetic resonance image data of the organ structure.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to techniques for generating a deformation model for a tissue of an examination object in dependence on a positioning of the examination object. The technique may include provisioning of long-term MR data recorded in a first time period from a region of interest comprising the tissue of the examination object, an ascertainment of time-resolved first position data describing the tissue based on the long-term MR data, a provisioning of time-resolved second position data recorded in the first time period from at least two surface points of a surface of the examination object, and a determination of the deformation model for the tissue by correlating the first position data with the second position data.

Abstract: A method includes determining a position of a local coil, a coil position, and a position of a body part of a patient, a body part position. Spacing between the coil position and the body part position is determined. An optimized MR sequence is determined. Based on the determined spacing between the coil position and the body part position, it is checked that in a subsequent MR examination of the patient, a predetermined loading threshold value (e.g., an SAR value) is not exceeded. The optimization of the MR sequence thus takes place under the boundary condition that the loading threshold value is not exceeded.

Abstract: In a method for performing a magnetic resonance measurement of an organ structure of a patient using a magnetic resonance imaging system adapted to the imaging of the organ structure: a correct positioning of the organ structure of the patient is ascertained, a correct positioning of the magnetic resonance imaging system with regard to the positioning of the organ structure of the patient is ascertained, a magnetic resonance scanning protocol is selected, a spatial coverage of the magnetic resonance measurement with regard to the organ structure to be imaged is adjusted, and the magnetic resonance measurement is performed to acquire magnetic resonance image data of the organ structure.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for provision of preparatory information for preparation of magnetic resonance imaging of an examination object, the examination object is supported on a patient support of the magnetic resonance apparatus, a depth map of the examination object supported on the patient support is acquired by a time-of-flight camera, preparatory information for the preparation of the magnetic resonance imaging is generated in a computer using the acquired depth map, and the preparatory information are provided from the computer.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus for implementing an MR examination of a patient, has an MR scanner with a gradient coil arrangement and a music network having at least two communicating instrument devices, synchronized by synchronization signals sent via the music network, so as to generate a music piece that is to be emitted as an output to the patient. One of the instrument devices is the magnetic resonance scanner that, as an interface to the music network, has a synchronization unit designed to derive the synchronization signals for the music network from sequence control signals received from the control computer of the magnetic resonance scanner, at least for the gradient coil arrangement.

Abstract: A method includes determining a position of a local coil, a coil position, and a position of a body part of a patient, a body part position. Spacing between the coil position and the body part position is determined. An optimized MR sequence is determined. Based on the determined spacing between the coil position and the body part position, it is checked that in a subsequent MR examination of the patient, a predetermined loading threshold value (e.g., an SAR value) is not exceeded. The optimization of the MR sequence thus takes place under the boundary condition that the loading threshold value is not exceeded.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus for implementing an MR examination of a patient, has an MR scanner with a gradient coil arrangement and a music network having at least two communicating instrument devices, synchronized by synchronization signals sent via the music network, so as to generate a music piece that is to be emitted as an output to the patient. One of the instrument devices is the magnetic resonance scanner that, as an interface to the music network, has a synchronization unit designed to derive the synchronization signals for the music network from sequence control signals received from the control computer of the magnetic resonance scanner, at least for the gradient coil arrangement.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for provision of preparatory information for preparation of magnetic resonance imaging of an examination object, the examination object is supported on a patient support of the magnetic resonance apparatus, a depth map of the examination object supported on the patient support is acquired by a time-of-flight camera, preparatory information for the preparation of the magnetic resonance imaging is generated in a computer using the acquired depth map, and the preparatory information are provided from the computer.

Abstract: In a method a user interface, and a medical imaging apparatus for processing an image data set, in particular a medical image data set, in order to enable a reproducible protocoling of the processing of an image data set, the following steps are implemented. An image data set is provided to a computer at a first point in time. Presentation parameters and/or evaluation parameters for the image data set are selected and entered into the computer, and a preparation of the image data set takes place using the selected and entered presentation parameters and/or evaluation parameters. The selected presentation parameters and/or evaluation parameters are protocoled in the computer. The image data set and the protocoled presentation parameters and/or evaluation parameters are provided at the same computer or at a different computer at a second point in time that is chronologically after the first point in time.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for visualizing damage in the myocardium. In such a method, CT image data of the heart are made available which were recorded with injection of contrast medium. The myocardium is isolated by segmentation from the CT image data. One or more views of the isolated myocardium are displayed on an image display device, density values being visualized with color coding in the display. At least one embodiment of the method permits visualization of damage of the myocardium based on CT image data, in which damaged areas of the myocardium can immediately be identified without time-consuming analysis.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for automatically detecting salient features in medical image data. The apparatus includes a memory device for storing the image data, at least one determination module for determining one or more anatomical regions which are acquired by the image data, a number of different examination modules that respectively include an application for automatically detecting specific salient features in a specific anatomical region, an input unit via which a primary application can be started, a control unit that on the basis of the anatomical regions determined by the determination module automatically selects and executes in the background further applications, as well as an output unit on which the result of the primary application is displayed together with an item of information relating to additional salient features that have been detected automatically with the aid of the applications executed in the background. The apparatus improves the diagnostic evaluation of medical image data.