Patent ID: 8025622

Claim:
A medical imaging system comprising: an elongated tubular member having distal and proximal ends, configured to be inserted into a vessel of a patient; an imaging device coupled to the distal end of the elongated tubular member and configured to emit one or more energy pulses and receive one or more echo signals; and a console electrically coupled to the imaging device, wherein the console includes a computer-usable medium having a sequence of instructions which when executed by a processor causes the processor to execute a process including generating a longitudinal image of the vessel by stacking cross-sectional frames generated as the imaging device is being pulled back within a vessel, simultaneously displaying the longitudinal image in a first window and one of the cross-sectional frames of the longitudinal image in a second window on a display, generating a user interface comprising a graphical palette, the graphical palette comprising a plurality of longitudinal graphical representations of a medical device generated in at least two different sizes, each of the plurality of longitudinal graphical representations having predefined dimensions, wherein the user interface is configured and arranged to enable a user to select and drag a longitudinal graphical representation of the plurality of longitudinal graphical representations to a selected location in the first window, and wherein when the selected longitudinal graphical representation is dragged to a portion of the first window that includes the cross-sectional frame of the second window a cross-sectional graphical representation of the medical device is overlaid onto the second window.