Patent ID: 11941179
Assignee: NUVASIVE, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 16:
17. A system comprising:
a free standing, medical grade computer including:
one or more processors; and
memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
produce an image set using a machine, wherein the image set includes permutations of a first image, the first image being based on a three-dimensional representation of a surgical field including a patient's internal anatomy and being with respect to a baseline orientation;
apply a first dose of radiation to the patient to obtain the three-dimensional representation;
acquire a new image of the surgical field by applying a second dose of radiation to the patient, wherein the first dose of radiation is greater than the second dose of radiation;
select a representative image from the image set based on a correlation between the representative image and the new image;
identify, within the new image, a location of a glyph caused by a radiodense object coupled to an imaging device used to obtain the new image;
merge the selected representative image with the new image using the location of the glyph as part of the merging; and
display the merged image.