Patent ID: 7346381

Claim:
An imaging system for use in medical intervention procedure planning involving a coronary sinus, comprising: a medical scanner system configured for generating a volume of cardiac image data using a protocol configured for imaging the coronary sinus; a data acquisition system configured for acquiring the volume of cardiac image data; an image generation system configured for generating at least one viewable image from the volume of cardiac image data through dynamic segmentation; a database configured for storing information from said data acquisition and image generation systems, and for storing a 3D model of at least the dynamically segmented volume of cardiac image data; an operator interface system configured for managing at least one of said medical scanner system, said data acquisition system, said image generation system, and said database; a post-processing system configured for analyzing the volume of cardiac image data, inserting at least three geometric markers into the volume of cardiac image data at corresponding anatomical landmarks, selecting a viewable parameter in response to the at least three geometric markers at the corresponding anatomical landmarks, generating the 3D model of the volume of cardiac image data with the at least three geometric markers, displaying the at least one viewable image, exporting the 3D model with the at least three geometric markers to said operator interface system, and being responsive to said operator interface system; and wherein said operator interface system comprises computer executable instructions stored in a memory for using and saving at least one of the volume of cardiac image data, the at least one viewable image, the corresponding anatomical landmarks, the 3D model with the at least three geometric markers, and a measured viewable parameter, in at least one of a bi-ventricular pacing planning, an atrial fibrillation planning, and an atrial flutter planning procedure, that involves the coronary sinus; thereby providing an imaging system for use in intervenhional procedure planning that makes available, prior to an actual medical interventional procedure, the 3D model with the at least three geometric markers for subsequent registration with an interventional system for use during a subsequent interventional procedure.