User interface for photonic tools and electromagnetic tracking guided bronchoscope

A method comprising the steps of:

• receiving current positional information indicative of a current position of an interventional tool inside an object;
• receiving, by a probe, non-ionizing radiation reflected off an interior of the object;
• spectrally analyzing, by a spectral analyzer, the received radiation into exploratory information about material composition and/or type and/or tissue structure of the object's interior at or around the current position of the interventional tool, the exploratory information comprising at least one measurement value for a material type present at or around the current position of the interventional tool and/or a scattering measurement value for an amount of scattering as per the received radiation;
• producing, by a graphical user interface generator, a graphics display for display on a display unit,
• displaying the graphics display on the display unit, wherein the graphics display includes:
• i) at least one exploratory information indicator for the scatter measurement value or for the material type measurement value or for a value derived from either or both of said measurement values, the exploratory information indicator comprising a) a pointer element configured to indicate a current reading of the measurement value or a current reading of the derived value and b) a dial element configured to indicate a range of values, with the pointer element being displayed against the dial element;
• and
• ii) a position indicator for the current positional information of the position in the interior.

A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions, which, when being executed by one or more processing units, is adapted to perform a method, comprising:

• receiving current positional information indicative of a current position of an interventional tool inside an object;
• receiving, by a probe, non-ionizing radiation reflected off an interior of the object;
• spectrally analyzing, by a spectral analyzer, the radiation received by the probe into exploratory information about material composition and/or type and/or tissue structure of the object's interior at or around the current position of the interventional tool, the exploratory information comprising at least one measurement value for a material type present at or around the current position of the interventional tool and/or a scattering measurement value for an amount of scattering as per the radiation received by the probe;
• producing, by a graphical user interface generator, a graphics display for display on a display unit, wherein the graphics display includes:
• i) at least one exploratory information indicator for the scatter measurement value or for the material type measurement value or for a value derived from either or both of said measurement values, the exploratory information indicator comprising a) a pointer element configured to indicate a current reading of the measurement value or a current reading of the derived value and b) a dial element configured to indicate a range of values, with the pointer element being displayed against the dial element;
• and
• ii) a position indicator for the current positional information of the current position of the interventional tool in the interior.