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US 11,596,373 B2Granted
Medical imaging apparatus providing AR-support
AssigneeBrainlab AG
InventorsFlorian Glatz, Ralf Schwitzko, Michael Bertram
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Abstract
Provided is a medical imaging apparatus having an AR-visualization module operably coupled to a camera and to a position determination module, which is adapted to create an AR-image based on an image received from the camera and an AR-overlay positionally registered with the image, and which includes a display interface adapted to transmit the created AR-image to a medical display.
Claims20
A medical imaging apparatus, comprising:
- a radiation emitter movably supported by a first support structure along a first annular pathway;
- a radiation detector movably supported by a second support structure along a second annular pathway;
- a camera positionally coupled to and moving together with either the radiation emitter or the radiation detector, and oriented towards an area surrounded by the first and the second pathway;
- a position determination module adapted to determine the spatial position of a radiation beam stretching between the radiation emitter and the radiation detector;
- an AR-visualization module operably coupled to the camera Band to the position determination module, which is adapted to create an AR-image based on an image received from the camera and an AR-overlay positionally registered with the image, and which includes a display interface adapted to transmit the created AR-image to a medical display,
- wherein the AR-overlay comprises a virtual representation of the field-of-view of the imaging apparatus comprising the radiation emitter and the radiation detector.
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A method comprising:
- determining, using a position determination module, the spatial positon of a radiation beam stretching between a radiation emitter and a radiation detector, the radiation emitter being movably supported by a first support structure along a first annular pathway and the radiation detector being movably supported by a second support structure along a second annular pathway;
- acquiring an image via a camera that is positionally coupled to and moving together with either the radiation emitter or the radiation detector and oriented towards an area surrounded by the first and the second pathway;
- creating, using an AR-visualization module operably coupled to a camera and to the position determination module, an AR-image based on the image acquired from the camera and an AR-overlay positionally registered with the image, wherein the AR-overlay comprises a virtual representation of the field-of-view of an imaging unit comprising the radiation emitter and the radiation detector;
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- presenting the AR-image that is based on the image received from the camera and the AR-overlay.
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A program, logic stored in a memory device of a computer that when running on the computer or when loaded onto the computer, causes the computer to perform a method;
- comprising:
- determining, using a position determination module, the spatial positon of a radiation beam stretching between a radiation emitter and a radiation detector, the radiation emitter being movably supported by a first support structure along a first annular pathway and the radiation detector being movably supported by a second support structure along a second annular pathway;
- acquiring an image via a camera that is positionally coupled to and moving together with either the radiation emitter or the radiation detector and oriented towards an area surrounded by the first and the second pathway;
- creating, using an AR-visualization module operably coupled to a camera and to the position determination module, an AR-image based on the image acquired from the camera and an AR-overlay positionally registered with the image, wherein the AR-overlay comprises a virtual representation of the field-of-view of an imaging unit comprising the radiation emitter and the radiation detector;
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- presenting the AR-image that is based on the image received from the camera and the AR-overlay.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.