Patent ID: 8331634

Claim:
A method for virtual adaptation of an object to be medically inserted into a patient, to a body part of the patient, comprising the steps of: obtaining contiguous 3D datasets of the object and the body part; based on the 3D datasets, displaying the object in a desired view on a monitor screen; based on the 3D datasets, also displaying the body part on the monitor screen; automatically displacing the body part, in an unchanged 3D volume imaging context, relative to the object on the monitor until the object is adapted to the body part on the monitor screen, while maintaining a position and an orientation of the object relative to the monitor screen unchanged, and modifying a depth position of the 3D dataset at least once relative to the monitor screen; allowing automatic or manual modification of dimensions of the object on the monitor screen to produce an altered object on the monitor screen; and automatically again adapting the altered object to the body part on the monitor screen by enlarging or decreasing said dimensions of the object on the monitor screen in order to alter said dimensions to scale with regard to the body part on the monitor screen.