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| 20080205589 | Clinical workflow for visualization and management of catheter intervention - A method of diagnosis or treatment of a patient in a catheterization laboratory is described, the method including the soliciting of advice from an expert located remotely from the catheterization laboratory. The expert is contacted and requested to log on to a client computer in communications with a computer in the catheterization laboratory, so that image and other data related to the patient may be displayed at the remote location. The access rights to the data may be established and limited by the catheterization laboratory or a hospital data management system. The expert may view and may manipulate the data provided, control a catheter, or may request additional data or adjust the angiographic imaging device, and may offer an opinion on the diagnosis or treatment as requested by personnel of the catheterization laboratory. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208212 | Arrangement for supporting a percutaneous intervention - The invention relates to an arrangement for assisting a percutaneous intervention, comprising an imaging system for tomographic imaging, a robot registered therewith and devices for capturing movements of the patient. A processing unit registers a 4D image dataset recorded before the intervention with a 2D or 3D image dataset of the patient which was recorded immediately before the intervention by the imaging system at a defined respiratory position. From this image data, the access path is transmitted to the robot as a function of the movements captured during recording the 4D image dataset and registration, said robot in turn, depending on the instantaneous movement data, holding the instrument on a predetermined target path and preventing the instrument from being advanced by the person if and as long as the instantaneous movement data does not match the previously recorded movement data. The arrangement reduces the risk of puncture errors. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080292046 | Bronchopulmonary medical services system and imaging method - A bronchopulmonary medical services system is provided in order to offer medical services to a patient in a single location. In one aspect, the system is provided with a patient alignment device and a C-arm imaging device. A medical services suite may be equipped with various medical service devices such that the patient receives medical services in a single location. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080304626 | Collision protection device for a patient examination table of a medical x-ray device - The invention can be summarized as follows: A collision protection device for a patient examination table of a medical X-ray device is provided for the purpose of assuring simple and reliable avoidance of collisions between very fast moving device parts of a medical X-ray device and a patient, which collision protection device has a protective element made of an X-ray transparent material, wherein the collision protection device can be arranged relative to the patient examination table and brought into a position such that in said position the protective element mechanically shields at least a part of the lying surface of the patient examination table. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090003521 | Optimized clinical workflow for combined 2D/3D morphological and functional coronary interventions using a robotic angiography system - A method of optimized diagnosis and treatment of suspected myocardial infarctions is described. The patient having possible coronary artery disease is transferred to a treatment room with an imaging modality suitable for obtaining computed tomographic (CT)-like images. Such images are obtained as radiographic image data, with or without contrast agent, and used in the medical diagnosis. If minimally invasive therapy such as percutaneous transluminal coronal angioplasty (PTCA) is indicated, the patient is prepared for the procedure in the same room, and the procedure performed, where the imaging modality is used to obtain fluoroscopic images to guide the PTCA procedure, or to assess the results of the procedure. The imaging modality may be mounted to a first positioning robot, and a second robot may facilitate the positioning or movement of the patient. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090123050 | Method and system for automatic quantification of aortic valve function from 4D computed tomography data using a physiological model - A method and system for modeling the aortic valve in 4D image data, such as 4D CT and echocardiography, is disclosed. An initial estimate of a physiological aortic valve model is determined for at least one reference frame of a 4D image sequence based on anatomic features in the reference frame. The initial estimate is refined to generate a final estimate in the reference frame. A dynamic model of the aortic valve is then generated by estimating the physiological aortic valve model for each remaining frame of the 4D image sequence based on the final estimate in the reference frame. The aortic valve can be quantitatively evaluated using the dynamic model. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090326373 | Method for assisting with percutaneous interventions - The present invention relates to a method for assisting with percutaneous interventions, wherein 2D x-ray images of an object region are recorded before the intervention using a C-arm x-ray system or a robot-based x-ray system at different projection angles and 3D x-ray image data of the object region is reconstructed from the 2D x-ray recordings. One or more 2D or 3D ultrasound images are recorded before and/or during the intervention using an external ultrasound system and registered with the 3D image data. The 2D or 3D ultrasound images are then overlaid with the 3D image data record or a target region segmented therefrom or displayed next to one another in the same perspective. The method allows a puncture or biopsy to be monitored with a low level of radiation. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100114289 | Method and associated device for positioning a stent deployed to support a vessel - A method for positioning a stent able to be deployed to support a vessel in a blood vessel, especially in the cardiology, with the stent after its provisional placement in a not yet deployed state in an area intended for the support of the vessel, being at least partly automatically deployed as a function of at least one triggering signal for final positioning in the blood vessel. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100290685 | FUSION OF 3D VOLUMES WITH CT RECONSTRUCTION - A method for registration of ultrasound device in three dimensions to a C-arm scan, the method including acquiring a baseline volume, acquiring images in which the ultrasound device is disposed, locating the device within the images, registering the location of the device to the baseline volume, acquiring an ultrasound volume from the ultrasound device, registering the ultrasound volume to the baseline volume, and performing fusion imaging to display a view of the ultrasound device in the baseline volume. | 11-18-2010 |
