Patents by Inventor Elmar Rummert

Elmar Rummert has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10768256
    Abstract: In a method for displaying quantitative magnetic resonance image data, and a processor, and a magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus that implement such a method, first quantitative MR image data of an examination object are provided to the processor, the first quantitative MR image having been obtained using an MR scanner with a first basic magnetic field strength. The first quantitative magnetic resonance image data are converted in the processor from the first basic magnetic field strength to a second basic magnetic field strength, thereby generating second quantitative MR image data, which are then displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Berthold Kiefer, Lars Lauer, Heiko Meyer, Edgar Mueller, Elmar Rummert, David Grodzki
  • Publication number: 20170315200
    Abstract: In a method for displaying quantitative magnetic resonance image data, and a processor, and a magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus that implement such a method, first quantitative MR image data of an examination object are provided to the processor, the first quantitative MR image having been obtained using an MR scanner with a first basic magnetic field strength. The first quantitative magnetic resonance image data are converted in the processor from the first basic magnetic field strength to a second basic magnetic field strength, thereby generating second quantitative MR image data, which are then displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Berthold Kiefer, Lars Lauer, Heiko Meyer, Edgar Mueller, Elmar Rummert, David Grodzki
  • Patent number: 9581673
    Abstract: A phantom for co-registering a magnetic resonance image and a nuclear medical image is disclosed. The phantom includes a longitudinal member having a first end cap and a second end cap and a chamber contained within the longitudinal member. The chamber contains a fluid for producing a first image using a first imaging modality. The phantom further includes a first rod disposed within the chamber of the longitudinal member. The first rod contains a radioactive substance for producing a second image using a second imaging modality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignees: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jun Bao, David Faul, Ralph Ladebeck, John Thomas Pawlak, Elmar Rummert, Charles C. Watson
  • Patent number: 9557395
    Abstract: A phantom for co-registering a magnetic resonance image and a nuclear medical image is disclosed. The phantom includes a longitudinal member having a first end cap and a second end cap and a chamber contained within the longitudinal member. The chamber contains a fluid for producing a first image using a first imaging modality. The phantom further includes a first rod disposed within the chamber of the longitudinal member. The first rod contains a radioactive substance for producing a second image using a second imaging modality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignees: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jun Bao, David Faul, Ralph Ladebeck, John Thomas Pawlak, Elmar Rummert, Charles C. Watson
  • Publication number: 20160370445
    Abstract: A phantom for co-registering a magnetic resonance image and a nuclear medical image is disclosed. The phantom includes a longitudinal member having a first end cap and a second end cap and a chamber contained within the longitudinal member. The chamber contains a fluid for producing a first image using a first imaging modality. The phantom further includes a first rod disposed within the chamber of the longitudinal member. The first rod contains a radioactive substance for producing a second image using a second imaging modality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Jun Bao, David Faul, Ralph Ladebeck, John Thomas Pawlak, Elmar Rummert, Charles C. Watson
  • Publication number: 20160370443
    Abstract: A phantom for co-registering a magnetic resonance image and a nuclear medical image is disclosed. The phantom includes a longitudinal member having a first end cap and a second end cap and a chamber contained within the longitudinal member. The chamber contains a fluid for producing a first image using a first imaging modality. The phantom further includes a first rod disposed within the chamber of the longitudinal member. The first rod contains a radioactive substance for producing a second image using a second imaging modality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Jun Bao, David Faul, Ralph Ladebeck, John Thomas Pawlak, Elmar Rummert, Charles C. Watson
  • Patent number: 9459333
    Abstract: A phantom for co-registering a magnetic resonance image and a nuclear medical image is disclosed. The phantom includes a longitudinal member having a first end cap and a second end cap and a chamber contained within the longitudinal member. The chamber contains a fluid for producing a first image using a first imaging modality. The phantom further includes a first rod disposed within the chamber of the longitudinal member. The first rod contains a radioactive substance for producing a second image using a second imaging modality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jun Bao, David Faul, Ralf Ladebeck, John Thomas Pawlak, Elmar Rummert, Charles C. Watson
  • Patent number: 8467847
    Abstract: A hybrid magnetic resonance (MR) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging system reduces likelihood of artifact distortion in PET images attributable to MR local coil cables and connectors in the patient table. MR local coil cables coupling the MR scanner and the MR local coil connectors are oriented so that they are outside the scanner field of view when performing PET scans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: James Frank Caruba, Ralf Ladebeck, Elmar Rummert
  • Publication number: 20130141098
    Abstract: A phantom for co-registering a magnetic resonance image and a nuclear medical image is disclosed. The phantom includes a longitudinal member having a first end cap and a second end cap and a chamber contained within the longitudinal member. The chamber contains a fluid for producing a first image using a first imaging modality. The phantom further includes a first rod disposed within the chamber of the longitudinal member. The first rod contains a radioactive substance for producing a second image using a second imaging modality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicants: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Bao, David Faul, Ralf Ladebeck, John Thomas Pawlak, Elmar Rummert, Charles C. Watson
  • Publication number: 20120059242
    Abstract: A hybrid magnetic resonance (MR) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging system reduces likelihood of artifact distortion in PET images attributable to MR local coil cables and connectors in the patient table. MR local coil cables coupling the MR scanner and the MR local coil connectors are oriented so that they are outside the scanner field of view when performing PET scans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicants: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS USA, INC.
    Inventors: James Frank Caruba, Ralf Ladebeck, Elmar Rummert
  • Publication number: 20060120513
    Abstract: In an adjustment device and method for a tomography apparatus for aligning of a patient support device and an acquisition system relative to one another, a reference laser projects onto a reference element associated with the patient support device, the reference laser being directly associated with a rotary frame of the acquisition system, such that tolerances in the alignment between the reference laser and the acquisition system are prevented. Moreover, due to the arrangement of the reference laser directly on the rotary frame of the tomography apparatus, a simple calibration between laser beam and the acquisition plane of the acquisition system is ensured by a displacement of the reference laser in two different rotation angle positions which exhibit an angular interval therebetween of substantially 180 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Thorsten Buttner, Winfried Korber, Hans-Jurgen Muller, Elmar Rummert