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Method for image registration processes and X-ray angiography system

US8050483B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Jan Boese · Eckental, DE
Jörn Justiz · Bern, CH
Andreas Meyer · Bubenreuth, DE
Marcus Pfister · Bubenreuth, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 19, 2008
Grant date	Nov 1, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 30, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2207/30048
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Registration of preoperatively acquired MRI images of soft parts to intraoperatively acquired X-ray images of soft parts is not possible. The invention shows a way of nevertheless using such preoperatively acquired images for superimposition with 2D projections of the soft parts, taking an indirect route via 3D/3D registration of images of the spinal column. For this purpose, 3D image data sets of the spinal column must be obtained separately on the one hand using MRI and on the other using the X-ray imaging system so that the 3D/3D registration produces a mapping rule which then also applies to the preoperatively acquired images of the soft part if the soft part images and the spinal images are acquired without intervening change in the patient position in the MRI scanner.

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