Patent ID: 8308632

Claim:
A method for displaying information in a magnetically guided endoscopy procedure, comprising the steps of: with a magnetic guidance system, magnetically guiding an capsule endoscope in vivo through a patient undergoing an endoscopy procedure, using a magnetic field generated by the magnetic guidance system that has an examination volume, and a magnetic field peak or a magnetic gradient field, said capsule endoscope being at a position in the patient; obtaining a camera image of an exterior of the patient in the magnetic guidance system; independently of said position of said capsule endoscope, detecting spatial information identifying at least one of said examination volume, said magnetic field peak, or said magnetic gradient field; automatically identifying, in a computer supplied with said spatial information and said camera image, an indicator of the examination volume, an indicator of the magnetic peak field, or an indicator of the magnetic gradient field relative to said camera image; and from said computer, causing said camera image of the patient to be shown at a display simultaneously with a presentation superimposed with the camera image of the patient that indicates, on said camera image of the patient, at least one of said indicator of the examination region, said indicator of said magnetic peak field, and said indicator of the magnetic gradient field.