Imaging apparatus and method for displaying position information

US10512417B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Healthcare Limited · DE

Inventors

• Thilo Hannemann · Erlangen, DE
• Bastian Rackow · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 2, 2016
• Grant date: Dec 24, 2019
• Expiry date: Feb 28, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R33/543
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method is for displaying position information relating to a position of a region of interest of a patient relative to an examination unit of an imaging apparatus. A first examination plane is assignable to the examination unit and a camera is disposed relative to the examination unit such that, via a lens of the camera, three non-collinear reference points lying in a first reference plane parallel to the first examination plane are mapped to three collinear first image points lying on a first line. In an embodiment, the method includes capturing a camera image of the region of interest via the camera; displaying a positioning image, the positioning image including the camera image; and displaying first marking information relating to a position of the first line in the positioning image.