Patent ID: 9404985
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: A61B,G01R

Claim Text:
1. A method to determine at least one manufacturing attribute of an implanted silicone implant, comprising: operating a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit to acquire at least one magnetic resonance data set representing magnetic resonance signals originating at least in part from a silicone implant in an examination subject; providing said at least one magnetic resonance data set to a processor and, in said processor, calculating at least one calculated spectrum from said at least one magnetic resonance data set and comparing said calculated spectrum to at least one stored item selected from the group consisting of a stored spectrum value, a stored spectrum value range, and at least one set of stored data representing a spectrum in order to associate at least one manufacturing attribute with the implanted silicone implant, said at least one manufacturing attribute being selected from the group consisting of a manufacturer of the implanted silicone implant, a group of manufacturers of the implanted silicone implant, a manufacturing site for the silicone implant, a manufacturing time period of the silicone implant, and a composition of gels and oils present in the silicone implant; and making a designation of said manufacturing attribute available from said processor as an output in electronic form.