Patents by Inventor Robert Rehner

Robert Rehner 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).

  • Publication number: 20240053417
    Abstract: A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography system is provided. The local coil has a plate-shaped local coil body with a main extension plane, and an electronic apparatus within the local coil body. A wireless local coil generates waste heat. Therefore, the local coil has an electrically non-conducting heat sink body that is connected for the conduction of heat to the electronic apparatus, and is configured as a type of plate within the local coil body in order to distribute heat of the electronic apparatus in the main extension plane of the local coil body. This provides that a surface of the local coil has a standards-compliant temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas Fackelmeier, Stephan Zink, Klaus Huber, Robert Rehner
  • Patent number: 11874350
    Abstract: A local coil includes a coil element in the form of a loop. The coil element includes a first conductor, a second conductor, and a third conductor. The coil element includes a first dielectric and a second dielectric. The first dielectric is arranged between the first conductor and the second conductor, and the second dielectric is arranged between the second conductor and the third conductor. The coil element includes a receive unit that includes the first conductor and the second conductor, and a detuning unit that includes the third conductor. In a first operating state of the coil element, the receive unit has a first resonant frequency. In a second operating state of the coil element, the detuning unit is configured to detune the resonant frequency of the receive unit so that the receive unit has a second resonant frequency different than the first resonant frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Rehner, Helmut Greim
  • Patent number: 11639977
    Abstract: A local coil for magnetic resonance imaging is disclosed herein. The local coil includes an electrical circuit arrangement and a coaxial cable with an internal conductor and an external conductor surrounding the internal conductor. The two ends of the coaxial cable are connected to the electrical circuit arrangement and the internal conductor and the external conductor together form an antenna loop. The internal conductor and/or the external conductor has at least one interruption and the at least one interruption divides the internal conductor and/or the external conductor into at least two separate segments in each case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Rehner
  • Patent number: 11480637
    Abstract: A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography scanner has an antenna. The antenna has a conductor loop and a plurality of electronic function groups, which are arranged in a distributed manner spaced apart from one another along the conductor loop and are electrically connected to one another by flexible conductor segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Rehner, Stephan Zink, Thomas Kundner
  • Publication number: 20220179019
    Abstract: A local coil for magnetic resonance imaging is disclosed herein. The local coil includes an electrical circuit arrangement and a coaxial cable with an internal conductor and an external conductor surrounding the internal conductor. The two ends of the coaxial cable are connected to the electrical circuit arrangement and the internal conductor and the external conductor together form an antenna loop. The internal conductor and/or the external conductor has at least one interruption and the at least one interruption divides the internal conductor and/or the external conductor into at least two separate segments in each case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventor: Robert Rehner
  • Patent number: 11340322
    Abstract: A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomograph includes a transmitting antenna for emitting a pilot tone, and a receiving antenna for receiving the pilot tone. The local coil also has a decoupling device for decoupling the receiving antenna from the transmitting antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Barbara Dornberger, Robert Rehner
  • Patent number: 11243281
    Abstract: A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomograph includes a transmitting antenna for emitting a pilot tone, and a receiving antenna for receiving the pilot tone. The local coil also has a decoupling device for decoupling the receiving antenna from the transmitting antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Barbara Dornberger, Robert Rehner
  • Patent number: 11243277
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a field camera and a method for measuring a magnetic field distribution using a magnetic resonance tomograph and the field camera. The field camera has a number of samples, which are distributed over a spatial volume to be measured, and a number of receive antennas. In an act of the method, a sensitivity matrix for the receive antennas, for each sample at each receive antenna, is captured using the magnetic resonance tomograph. In another act, antenna signals of the samples in a magnetic field to be measured are captured by the receive antennas, using the magnetic resonance tomograph. Finally, magnetic resonance signals of the individual samples are determined from the antenna signals as a function of the sensitivity matrix, using a controller. In a further act, the magnetic field strength at the location of the samples may be determined from the magnetic resonance signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Kannengiesser, Robert Rehner, Stefan Popescu, Gudrun Ruyters, Markus Vester
  • Publication number: 20210302516
    Abstract: A local coil includes a coil element in the form of a loop. The coil element includes a first conductor, a second conductor, and a third conductor. The coil element includes a first dielectric and a second dielectric. The first dielectric is arranged between the first conductor and the second conductor, and the second dielectric is arranged between the second conductor and the third conductor. The coil element includes a receive unit that includes the first conductor and the second conductor, and a detuning unit that includes the third conductor. In a first operating state of the coil element, the receive unit has a first resonant frequency. In a second operating state of the coil element, the detuning unit is configured to detune the resonant frequency of the receive unit so that the receive unit has a second resonant frequency different than the first resonant frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Rehner, Helmut Greim
  • Patent number: 11119166
    Abstract: The invention relates to a local coil matrix and to a magnetic resonance scanner for operation by means of a low magnetic field. The local coil matrix according to the invention has a first coil winding and a second coil winding and a first low-noise pre-amplifier and second pre-amplifier, each electrically connected to a coil winding. The first coil winding has a broadband matching in a first frequency range at a Larmor frequency to the first pre-amplifier connected thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Miosga, Robert Rehner, Markus Vester
  • Publication number: 20210003645
    Abstract: A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography scanner has an antenna. The antenna has a conductor loop and a plurality of electronic function groups, which are arranged in a distributed manner spaced apart from one another along the conductor loop and are electrically connected to one another by flexible conductor segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Rehner, Stephan Zink, Thomas Kundner
  • Publication number: 20200292645
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a field camera and a method for measuring a magnetic field distribution using a magnetic resonance tomograph and the field camera. The field camera has a number of samples, which are distributed over a spatial volume to be measured, and a number of receive antennas. In an act of the method, a sensitivity matrix for the receive antennas, for each sample at each receive antenna, is captured using the magnetic resonance tomograph. In another act, antenna signals of the samples in a magnetic field to be measured are captured by the receive antennas, using the magnetic resonance tomograph. Finally, magnetic resonance signals of the individual samples are determined from the antenna signals as a function of the sensitivity matrix, using a controller. In a further act, the magnetic field strength at the location of the samples may be determined from the magnetic resonance signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Stephan Kannengiesser, Robert Rehner, Stefan Popescu, Gudrun Ruyters, Markus Vester
  • Patent number: 10722151
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance device includes a radiofrequency unit that includes a radiofrequency antenna, at least one radiofrequency line and at least one radiofrequency injection point. Radiofrequency signals are transferred to the radiofrequency antenna by the at least one radiofrequency line and are coupled into the radiofrequency antenna at the at least one radiofrequency injection point. The magnetic resonance device also includes a patient receiving zone that is at least partially enclosed by the radiofrequency antenna, and a motion detection unit for detecting a movement of a patient that may be positioned within the patient receiving zone. At least one radiofrequency line includes at least one injection element by which at least one motion detection signal of the motion detection unit is coupled into the radiofrequency line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stephan Biber, Andreas Fackelmeier, Klaus Huber, Robert Rehner
  • Patent number: 10690736
    Abstract: A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography system is provided. The local coil has a coil winding and a preamplifier connected electrically thereto. The coil winding has a plurality of coil segments that are coupled capacitively to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Greim, Robert Rehner, Markus Vester
  • Publication number: 20200150201
    Abstract: A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomograph includes a transmitting antenna for emitting a pilot tone, and a receiving antenna for receiving the pilot tone. The local coil also has a decoupling device for decoupling the receiving antenna from the transmitting antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Barbara Dornberger, Robert Rehner
  • Patent number: 10617298
    Abstract: A connecting device for establishing a data link between a docking device provided at a part of a magnetic resonance scanner, and a patient support, with at least one slot for a local coil, which can be docked to the docking device, has a first data transmission device on the patient support side, which interacts with a second data transmission device on the docking device side in order to establish the data link in the docked state. The data transmission devices each have at least one communication device designed for wireless near field communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Bollenbeck, Robert Rehner
  • Patent number: 10605876
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a local coil with a device for providing a first mixed frequency signal and a second mixed frequency signal by a first auxiliary frequency signal and a second auxiliary frequency signal. The device has an auxiliary mixer configured to generate the second mixed frequency signal from the first auxiliary frequency signal and the second auxiliary frequency signal. The local coil has a signal input including a first signal connection to the device. The local coil is configured to jointly receive the first auxiliary frequency signal and the second auxiliary frequency signal by way of the signal input and supply them to the device by way of the first signal connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Bollenbeck, Ralph Oppelt, Robert Rehner, Markus Vester
  • Publication number: 20190339344
    Abstract: The invention relates to a local coil matrix and to a magnetic resonance scanner for operation by means of a low magnetic field. The local coil matrix according to the invention has a first coil winding and a second coil winding and a first low-noise pre-amplifier and second pre-amplifier, each electrically connected to a coil winding. The first coil winding has a broadband matching in a first frequency range at a Larmor frequency to the first pre-amplifier connected thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Miosga, Robert Rehner, Markus Vester
  • Publication number: 20190235034
    Abstract: A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography system is provided. The local coil has a coil winding and a preamplifier connected electrically thereto. The coil winding has a plurality of coil segments that are coupled capacitively to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Helmut Greim, Robert Rehner, Markus Vester
  • Patent number: 10222443
    Abstract: A method for generating motion information for an at least partially moving examination region includes outputting at least one first excitation signal with a first frequency band. The first excitation signal is picked up with a receive coil arrangement of a magnetic resonance system. The at least one coil of the receive coil arrangement is configured to pick up a receive frequency band that includes the first frequency band. At least one item of motion information for the examination region is determined from the picked up first excitation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jan Bollenbeck, Georg Pirkl, Robert Rehner, Peter Speier, Markus Vester