Patent ID: 9402639
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. A method for positioning a mobile fluoroscopic imaging system, the method comprising: positioning a first sensor on the mobile fluoroscopic imaging system; positioning a second sensor to identify a location and an orientation of a point of interest of a patient; electronically communicating data from the first sensor and the second sensor to a computer unit; determining, by the computer unit, a location of the point of interest and an initial location of the mobile fluoroscopic imaging system according to the data; computing, by the computer unit, an optimal position of the mobile fluoroscopic imaging system to acquire at least one image of the point of interest of the patient according to the location and the orientation of the point of interest of the patient; computing, by the computer unit, instructions for manually moving the mobile fluoroscopic imaging system from the initial location to the optimal position; and displaying the instructions for manually moving the mobile fluoroscopic imaging system from the initial location to the optimal position.