Patent ID: 11950967
Assignee: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A system for planning and performing a repeat interventional procedure, comprising:
a computer-readable memory configured to store:
a reference image of a region of a subject having a reference image coordinate space, the reference image including at least one target area, markers indicative of a plurality of prior intervention locations and diagnostic pathology results for each of the prior intervention locations;
a series of real-time guidance images of a region of a subject having a guidance image coordinate space, wherein said series of guidance images are acquired from a different imaging modality than the reference image;
one or more computer processors configured to:
register the reference image including the at least one target area and the markers to the series of real-time guidance images in the guidance image coordinate space to generate a series of real-time enhanced guidance images comprising the series of real-time guidance images, the at least one target area, and the prior intervention locations and the diagnostic pathology results;
register the series of real-time enhanced guidance images to the reference image in the reference image coordinate space;
control a display device to display the series of real-time enhanced guidance images in the guidance image coordinate space, wherein a clinician performing the interventional procedure can view the series of real-time guidance images, the at least one target area, the prior intervention locations and the indicators of pathology results on the display device in real-time; and
control the display device to display a planning image which includes the reference image, the at least one target area and the plurality of intervention locations based on the registration of the series of enhanced guidance images and the reference image in the reference image coordinate space.