Patent ID: 11903751
Assignee: MEDTRONIC NAVIGATION, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 8:
9. A method of determining a location of a member in a 3D image data based on a 2D image data, comprising:
accessing the 3D image data of a subject;
acquiring the 2D image data of the subject including image data of the member;
generating a 2D long view of the subject including the region of interest of the subject based on the acquired 2D image data;
registering the 3D image data to the generated 2D long view;
determining a location of the member in the generated 2D long view including accessing parameters of the member to at least assist in locating the member and generating a member projection based on the accessed parameters; and
correlating the location of the member in the generated 2D long view to the 3D image data based at least on the registering of the 3D image data to the generated 2D long view;
wherein the correlating the location of the member in the second image data to the first image data allows a representation of the determined location of the member in the first image data.