Fluoroscopy intervention method with a cone-beam

Abstract

A fluoroscopy intervention method to obtain an image of an object (11) together with radiopaque intervention means (30), the method using a rotating cone-beam X-ray source (8,9) and a corresponding two-dimensional X-ray detector (6) with the object (11) and the intervention means (30) positioned between the X-ray source (8) and the X-ray detector (6). Due to a cone-beam acquisition and a multi-slice reconstruction (9′) the intervention means (30) can have a substantial angulation with respect to the image slices (9′), providing the operator's hand (4) being outside the primary X-ray beam (9). This reduces the X-ray dose the operator. By providing additional lighting means (60), delineating the primary X-ray source at its periphery, the operator is supplied with an information about the spatial position of the X-ray radiation. The lighting means (60) can be further used to position an X-ray shield (65) of a surface of the patient to reduce the X-ray dose due to scattered radiation.

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