Patent ID: 11903770
Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 5:
6. A method for combining different medical image data, the method comprising:
acquiring ultrasound data with an ultrasound probe;
receiving three dimensional (3D) medical image data;
determining a position of the ultrasound probe with an electromagnetic tracker;
determining a transfer function between the ultrasound image data and the 3D medical image data at a plurality of positions (C) of the ultrasound probe and providing a corresponding plurality of calibrated transfer functions (Tcal0, Tcal1); and
synchronizing the ultrasound image data and the 3D medical image data based, at least in part, on a position of the ultrasound probe and the plurality of calibrated transfer functions wherein the plurality of calibrated transfer functions are weighted by absolute weight factors and the absolute weight factors have corresponding values of zero or one.