Patent Document ID: 20090112083
Application ID: 12101268
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for implementing a tomographically-assisted, minimally-invasive interventional procedure of a patient, comprising the steps of: continuously detecting successive inspiratory/expiratory positions of a patient within a respiratory cycle of the patient; at an image acquisition time, acquiring a tomographic image, selected from the group consisting of CT images and MRT images, of a slice of the patient containing an anatomical location to be treated, said image being comprised of image data; at said image acquisition time, identifying a measurement value, from among said continuously detected inspiratory/respiratory positions within the respiratory cycle of the patient, that represents an inspiratory/respiratory position of the patient at said image acquisition time; electronically storing said measurement value and said image data in an associated relationship; and retrieving the associated measurement value and image data from storage and displaying said image data together with said measurement value.