Patent Document ID: 9911187
Application ID: 15535958
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for determining a trajectory through an anatomical body part for a medical procedure the method executed by one or more processors, the steps comprising: acquiring, by one or more of the processors, patient image data describing a medical image of a patient anatomical body part being the anatomical body part in a patient's body; acquiring, by one or more of the processors, atlas trajectory data describing a model anatomical body part being a model of the patient anatomical body part, and describing the position of at least one predetermined trajectory through the model anatomical body part; acquiring, by one or more of the processors, critical structure data describing the position of at least one critical structure in the model anatomical body part or in the patient anatomical body part; determining, by one or more of the processors and based on the patient image data and the atlas trajectory data and the critical structure, mapping data describing a mapping of the model anatomical body part, of the position of the at least one predetermined trajectory and of the position of the at least one critical structure onto the medical image of the patient anatomical body part; determining, by one or more of the processors and based on the mapping data and the atlas trajectory data and the patient image data, analysis region data describing an analysis region in the patient image data, the analysis region having a position in the patient anatomical body part fulfilling a predetermined spatial condition relative to the position of the mapped predetermined trajectory; determining, by one or more of the processors and based on the patient image data and the atlas trajectory data and the analysis region data and the critical structure data, straight trajectory data describing a straight line trajectory through the patient anatomical body part having a position fulfilling a predetermined spatial condition relative to the position of at least one critical structure in the patient anatomical body part.