Method and apparatus for the three-dimensional presentation of an examination region of a patient in the form of a 3D reconstruction image

US7302286B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Estelle Camus · Erlangen, DE
• Hendrik Ditt · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE
• Reinmar Killmann · Forchheim, DE
• Norbert Rahn · Forchheim, DE
• Siegfried Wach · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 11, 2003
• Grant date: Nov 27, 2007
• Expiry date: Jun 1, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2090/364
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method and apparatus for the three-dimensional presentation of an examination region of a patient in the form of a 3D reconstruction image, a preoperatively acquired 3D image dataset of the examination region is employed in a medical procedure, datasets representing a number of 2D ultrasound images of the examination region are acquired, the preoperative 3D image dataset is updated using the datasets representing 2D ultrasound images, and the 3D reconstruction image is generated on the basis of the updated 3D image dataset.