Medical workstation, imaging system, and method for mixing two images

US6895268B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Norbert Rahn · Forchheim, DE
• Siegfried Wach · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE
• Rainer Graumann · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE
• Johannes Bieger · Birkenfeld, DE
• Gerold Herold · Erlangen, DE
• Gerd Wessels · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 28, 2000
• Grant date: May 17, 2005
• Expiry date: Nov 7, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B8/0833
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a system, method and workstation, images of a first subject are acquired with an image signal acquisition unit, the position of the image signal acquisition unit is determined, the position of a second subject is determined and the position of the second subject relative to the image signal acquisition unit is also determined and an image of the second subject is mixed into an image of the first subject acquired with the image signal acquisition unit.