Patent Document ID: 20170046826
Application ID: 15307012
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of providing an intraoperative magnetic resonance image of a target site of a patient body at which a medical procedure is performed, the method comprising: acquiring a high resolution preoperative magnetic resonance image (MRI), MRI o , of a first region of the patient comprising the target site, the MRI o image comprising a plurality of slices MRI o,n having voxels; acquiring a preoperative, iMRI o image of a second region of the patient comprising the target site, using an iMRI scanner having a field of view (FOV), the iMRI o image comprising a plurality of slices iMRI o,m having voxels; registering the MRI o image to the iMRI o image to provide a rigid body transform (iRT o ) that transforms image MRI o to image iMRI o ; acquiring an iMRI 1 image of the target site during performance of the medical procedure; registering image iMRI o to image iMRI 1 to determine a non-rigid body transform (NRT 1 ); and applying iRT o and NRT 1 to image MRI o to provide a high resolution (hiQ-iMRI 1 ) image.