Patent Document ID: 20070276243
Application ID: 10596434
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A medical system comprising: a medical instrument to be guided in a patient body, X-Ray acquisition means for acquiring a two-dimensional X-ray image of said medical instrument, ultrasound acquisition means for acquiring a three-dimensional ultrasound data set of said medical instrument using an ultrasound probe, means for providing a localization of said ultrasound probe within a referential of said X-ray acquisition means, means for selecting a region of interest around said medical instrument in the three-dimensional ultrasound data set, that define a first localization of said region of interest within a referential of said ultrasound acquisition means, means for converting said first localization of said region of interest within said referential of the ultrasound acquisition means into a second localization of said region of interest within said referential of the X-ray acquisition means, using said localization of the ultrasound probe, means for generating and displaying a bi-modal representation of said medical instrument in which said two-dimensional X-ray image and the three-dimensional ultrasound data included in said region of interest are combined using said second localization.