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AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsJean-luc Robert, Emil George Radulescu, Richard Allen Snyder, Sanghamithra Korukonda
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Depiction, within a single imaging modality, of an intervention device and body tissue surrounding the device, is improved by interrogating a subject that includes the intervention device and the tissue. An image is created using, for a parameter, a value, of the parameter (160), better suited to one or the other of a device region depicting the intervention device and a tissue region depicting the tissue. The value is used to yield respectively either a first image (152) or a second image (154). Respective presets may correspondingly have different values for the parameter. From jointly the first image and the second image which are both of the single modality, a combination is formed that is an image of the intervention device depicted as surrounded by the tissue. The combinations may be formed dynamically and ongoingly. An apparatus for the improved depiction may be configured for the use of the parameter in a stage prior to image processing conducted on a scan-converted image (146) if such image processing is employed.
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An imaging apparatus configured for an intervention device and body tissue surrounding said device using a single imaging modality, said apparatus comprising:
The apparatus of claim 25, wherein at least one first parameter value and at least one second parameter value correspond to the same parameter.
The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the first and second parameter values are different.
The apparatus of claim 25, wherein at least one first parameter value and at least one second parameter value correspond to different parameters.
The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the boundary area is a different color than the interventional device.
The apparatus of claim 25, wherein said forming further comprises applying edge enhancement to a depiction of said intervention device.
The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the first and second parameter values comprise values of image acquisition parameters.
The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the first and second parameter values comprise values of post-processing parameters.
The apparatus of claim 25, said intervention device including at least one of metal and a mitral valve clip.
The apparatus of claim 25, wherein said first and second images are each generated by imaging from different particular spatial directions.
An imaging method for imaging an intervention device and body tissue surrounding said device using a single imaging modality, said method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.