Patent ID: 7689042
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: A61B,G01N,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for visualizing a contour of an interest region in a medical fluoroscopy image, comprising: firstly generating a 3D raw data set comprising the interest region with which the interest region is visible in a surrounding tissue by an imaging modality; secondly generating a segmented 3D data set from the 3D raw data set with which the interest region is delimited from the surrounding tissue by a processing device; thirdly generating a 2D fluoroscopy image which contains the interest region by an x-ray device; fourthly generating a 2D projection from the segmented 3D data set which is congruent with the 2D fluoroscopy image by the processing device; determining the contour of the interest region in the 2D projection by the processing device; and overlaying the contour with the 2D fluoroscopy image by the processing device.