Patent ID: 8473035

Claim:
A medical imaging system that captures and displays a visible light image and a diagnostic image of a subject comprising: a video camera configured to capture the visual light image; at least one near inferred camera configured to capture a diagnostic image; and a display configured to display concurrently a video of the visible light image from the video camera, diagnostic image from the at least one near infrared camera, a merged image of the visible light image and the diagnostic image, and a user control interface, the user control interface including: a pseudocolor control within the user interface that permits a user to specify a color within a visible light spectrum at which a marker material of a grayscale representation of the diagnostic image of the subject is rendered, wherein said diagnostic image shows a distribution of a marker material within a subject; and a frame rates adjustment controlling adjustment of a frame rate of one or more of near infrared cameras and/or the video camera.