Patent ID: 9554728
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A method for visualizing information of an object of interest, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing pre-navigation data of a region of interest of an object wherein the pre-navigation data comprises spatial geometrical data and a functional parameter surface in correspondence to the spatial geometrical data; b) acquiring live image data of the region of interest; c) utilizing the live image data to detect an instrument in the live image data; d) determining spatial relation of the pre-navigation data and the live image data; e) determining the position of the detected instrument in the spatial geometrical data, which determining is based on the spatial relation, and computing a predetermined related point of location on the functional parameter surface; f) generating a combination of a simplified surface representation of the region of interest, which simplified surface representation is based on a visualization of the functional parameter surface, and a marker indicating the computed predetermined related point of location; wherein the simplified surface representation is an unfolded map image; and g) displaying the combination as navigation guidance.