Patent ID: 8050471

Claim:
A system for displaying image data acquired during an intervention procedure in respect of a body volume, said system comprising: a reconstruction module which reconstructs a three-dimensional surface rendering image of vasculature in said body volume from three-dimensional image data; and generates a three-dimensional silhouette image of the vasculature in the body volume; a processor which generates a series of two-dimensional images of the vasculature and an interventional instrument in said body volume during an intervention procedure; a visualization control which crops portions of the two-dimensional image which are remote from a tip of the interventional instrument; an image compensation module which aligns and superimposes said two-dimensional cropped image with a corresponding region of said three-dimensional silhouette image of the vasculature in said body volume; and a display on which said cropped two-dimensional image is displayed within said corresponding region of said three-dimensional silhouette image of the vasculature of said body volume.