General Electric Company

Ge Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC

Jeremie Pescatore

Yves Lucien Trousset

Michel Francois Grimaud

Erwan Kerrien

Sebastien Gorges

Marie-Odile Berger

Vincent Jonas Bismuth

Daniel Eduardo Groszmann

Gerald Lee Beauregard

Francois Peter

Morgane Bourdon

A system and method for correcting the registration of a 3D image and a 2D image acquired with medical imaging systems is disclosed. The system and method determines acquisition geometry of the imaging system by calculating an initial projection matrix associated with the 2D image. The system performs a projection of the 3D image using the initial projection matrix resulting in a 2D projection of the 3D image. The system registers the 2D projection of the 3D image and the 2D image. A new projection matrix is determined based on the registration of the 2D image and the 2D projection of the 3D image. The 3D image is then registered with the 2D image using the new projection matrix. An associated medical imaging system is disclosed. Method embodiments use previously acquired 3D images or images acquired using imaging modalities different than the one used to acquire the 2D image.

Method to correct the registration of radiography images

A system to navigate an image-guided object traveling in an area of interest of an imaged subject in relation to an acquired image of the imaged subject as created by an imaging system is provided. The system includes a navigation system to track movement of the object in the imaged subject in spatial relation to a navigation coordinate system, and a controller. The controller is operable in detecting an image of the object in the at least one image of the imaged subject, calculating a spatial relation between the location of the image of the object and a tracked location of the object, and modifying the spatial relation of the image coordinate system relative to the navigation coordinate system so as to reduce the difference between the location of the image of the object and the tracked location of the object by the navigation system.

System and method of navigating an object in an imaged subject

A system to track movement of an object travelling through an imaged subject is provided. The system includes an imaging system to acquire a fluoroscopic image and operable to create a three-dimensional model of a region of interest of the imaged subject. A controller includes computer-readable program instructions representative of the steps of calculating a probability that an acquired image data is of the object on a per pixel basis in the fluoroscopic image, calculating a value of a blending coefficient per pixel of the fluoroscopic image dependent on the probability, adjusting the fluoroscopic image including multiplying the value of the blending coefficient with one of a greyscale value, a contrast value, and an intensity value for each pixel of the fluoroscopic image. The adjusted fluoroscopic image is combined with the three-dimensional model to create an output image illustrative of the object in spatial relation to the three-dimensional model.

System and method to improve visibility of an object in an imaged subject

A system for navigating an image-guided object through an imaged subject supported on table in relation to an image acquired by an image detector is provided. The system includes a first tracking element attached to the patient, and a second tracking element attached at the table. The first and second tracking elements define first and second coordinate systems. A controller is operable to register the second coordinate system with a third coordinate system defined by the image detector, measure a spatial relation between the first tracking element and the second tracking element, register the first coordinate system with the third local coordinate system defined by the image detector based on the spatial relation between the first and second tracking elements, and generating a composite image comprising a virtual image of the object in spatial relation to the image of the imaged subject acquired by the image detector.

System and method of navigating a medical instrument

Certain embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for object and isocenter alignment in an imaging system. The system includes an electromagnetic, an electromagnetic receiver, and an imaging unit for determining an isocenter of an imaging scanner based on information from the electromagnetic receiver. The imaging unit identifies the isocenter based on a plurality of electromagnetic position measurements. The imaging unit identifies a center of an object to be imaged based on information from a second electromagnetic receiver. The imaging unit repositions the object based on the isocenter. In an embodiment, the emitter is located on the object, the first receiver is located on a detector, and the second receiver is located on a tool for identifying a center of the object or a portion of the object.

Method and apparatus for positioning an object with respect to the isocenter of an acquisition system

In registration of images in digitized subtracted angiography, X-rays irradiate a patient's body. A first digitized mask image is acquired without an injection of the contrast agent into the body, then the contrast agent is injected into the body, and a second digitized contrast image is acquired. The mask image is divided with regular geometrical patterns and a registration is made of the mask image relative to the contrast image through the use of landmarks defined at the corners of the geometrical patterns. These two images are subtracted after registration, and the subtracted image is displayed. The robustness of the landmarks is furthermore tested, and if the robustness is insufficient, a subdivision is made of the regular geometrical patterns.

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