Patent ID: 9591969
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A medical imaging method for obtaining medical images of an examination subject with a first medical imaging device comprising a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and with a second medical imaging device that comprises an electromagnetic localization device that emits electromagnetic radiation, said method comprising: placing a patient on a single transfer plate, said single transfer plate comprising at least one transparent region in which said single transfer plate is transparent to said electromagnetic radiation; supporting said single transfer plate on one patient support, with said one patient support and said single transfer plate thereby forming a single combined supporting structure for said patient, with said electromagnetic localization device being selectively removable from said single combined supporting structure; selectively mechanically configuring said single combined supporting structure to a first state, in which said electromagnetic localization device is not present in said single combined supporting structure; operating said first medical imaging device to obtain a magnetic resonance image, as a first medical image, of an examination region of the examination subject on the single transfer plate with said single combined supporting structure in said first state; selectively mechanically configuring said single combined supporting structure to a second state in which said electromagnetic localization device is present in said single combined supporting structure; and operating said second medical imaging device to obtain a second medical image of said examination region while said examination subject is on said transfer plate with said single combined supporting structure in said second state, with said single transfer plate being positioned on said one patient support with said at least one transparent region disposed over said electromagnetic localization device.