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Samsung patents scanner that uses a camera to auto-align with patients

Patent drawing
Patent drawing from the official filing.

Samsung has filed a patent for a system that helps medical imaging machines, like CT or MRI scanners, line up correctly with a patient's table. It uses a camera on the scanner to look at small markers on the table and automatically moves the scanner into the right position.

Why it mattersThis could make medical scans faster and more precise by removing the need for manual adjustments, improving the efficiency of hospital imaging departments.

In the filing’s own words

Apparatus for aligning a scan field of a medical scanner with a patient support, the apparatus comprising: at least one fiducial marker mounted to the patient support; a camera mounted to the medical scanner for imaging the at least one fiducial marker mounted to the patient support; a transport mechanism for moving the medical scanner relative to the patient support; and a computing system for instructing the transport mechanism to move the medical scanner to align the scan field of the medical scanner with the patient support.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. Apparatus for aligning a scan field of a medical scanner with a patient support, the apparatus comprising: at least one fiducial marker mounted to the patient support; a camera mounted to the medical scanner for imaging the at least one fiducial marker mounted to the patient support; a transport mechanism for moving the medical scanner relative to the patient support; and a computing system for instructing the transport mechanism to move the medical scanner to align the scan field of the medical scanner with the patient support.

Facts

Company
Samsung (NeuroLogica Corporation, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ALIGNING A SCANNER WITH AN OBJECT TO BE SCANNED
Publication number
US20260315013A1
Application number
19378636
Filed
Nov 4, 2025
Published
Oct 15, 2026
Inventors
4
Claims
19

Classified under

A61B 6/0492 Human necessitiesA61B 6/032 Human necessitiesA61B 6/4452 Human necessitiesA61B 6/4476 Human necessitiesA61B 6/461 Human necessitiesG06T 2207/30204 Physics & computing
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