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- Patent Title: Medical imaging device for providing an image representation supporting in positioning an intervention device
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Application No.: US14003486Application Date: 2012-03-05
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Publication No.: US09700209B2Publication Date: 2017-07-11
- Inventor: Raoul Florent , Bart Pierre Antoine Jozef Hoornaert , Herman Stegehuis
- Applicant: Raoul Florent , Bart Pierre Antoine Jozef Hoornaert , Herman Stegehuis
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: EP11305285 20110315
- International Application: PCT/IB2012/051021 WO 20120305
- International Announcement: WO2012/123850 WO 20120920
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; A61B5/00 ; A61B6/06 ; A61B6/12 ; A61B90/00 ; A61B6/00

Abstract:
A medical imaging device and a method for providing an image representation supporting positioning of an intervention device such as a wire tip (4) in a region of interest during an intervention is proposed. Therein, the following process steps are to be performed: (S1) acquiring a pre-live anatomy image (1) including a region of interest; (S2) acquiring a live anatomy image using a live image acquisition device comprising an adjustable collimator device; (S3) identifying a location (5) of the intervention device (4) within the live anatomy image; (S4) adjusting settings of the collimator device based on the identified location of the intervention device for subsequently acquiring a further live anatomy image representing the region of interest using the live image acquisition device with the collimator device being in the adjusted settings; and providing (S5) the image representation by merging information from the live anatomy image into the pre-live anatomy image. Thereby, the intervention device may be continuously tracked and the collimator device may restrict a field of view to a location of the intervention device thereby significantly reducing an applied X-ray dose. Background anatomical information may be introduced into the final image representation using the pre-live anatomy image possibly having a higher image contrast than the live anatomy images.
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