Method and apparatus for intravascular localization and imaging without X-rays

US6813512B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV · NL

Inventors

• Bernd Aldefeld · Hamburg, DE
• Friedrich-Karl Beckmann · Pinneberg, DE
• Holger Eggers · Eindhoven, NL
• Rolf U. D. Kobs · Tornesch, DE
• Erhard Klotz · Neumünster, DE
• Michael Harald Kuhn · Hamburg, DE
• Dirk Manke · Hamburg, DE
• Volker Rasche · Hamburg, DE
• Georg Weidinger · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 12, 2001
• Grant date: Nov 2, 2004
• Expiry date: Oct 12, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2090/3958
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device for determining the position of a medical instrument that is introduced into an object to be examined is also used for imaging the vicinity of the medical instrument. In order to enable the acquisition of instantaneous position information and image information from the vicinity of the medical instrument for all kinds of medical instruments, a localization device that is arranged in the end zone of the medical instrument that is to be introduced determines the position of the medical instrument within the object to be examined; at the same time image information is acquired in the vicinity of the medical instrument by an image acquisition device that is arranged on the medical instrument and on the basis of the position thus determined the position of the medical instrument (3) is reproduced in a survey image of the object to be examined and images of the vicinity of the object to be examined are displayed on the basis of the image information acquired.