Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Markus Rossmeier

Helmut Doerre

Dorin Comaniciu

Terrence Chen

Norbert Rahn

Andreas Meyer

Peter Durlak

Johannes Rieber

Beate Schwichtenberg

In a method and apparatus for graphical assistance in an interventional procedure to open an occlusion of a hollow organ of a patient a three-dimensional CT image data set of an examination region with the at least one hollow organ having the occlusion is retrieved and visualized segmentation data with segmentation data of the hollow organ at a display unit. At least two x-ray fluoroscopy images are acquired at different angulations the CT image data set is registered with at least two of the x-ray images. A number of fluoroscopy x-ray images are acquired during a time period, with real-time visualization of at least one x-ray fluoroscopy image and data of the CT image data set at the display unit. The steps are implemented individually and in sequence, and control options relating exclusively to the current step can be selected manually via a user interface depending on the step that is currently implemented, and only user inputs that are appropriate for the current step are accepted.

Method and apparatus for graphical assistance in a medical procedure

Electromedical apparatus

Patient table for medical imaging system

A method and system for real time stent enhancement on a live 2D fluoroscopic scene is disclosed. A motion compensated stent enhancement image is generated from a first set of frames in a fluoroscopic image sequence. A weighting field is generated based on the motion compensated stent enhancement image. For each new frame in the fluoroscopic image sequence that is received, the stent is enhanced in the new frame by compounding the new frame with the motion compensated stent enhancement image using the weighting field.

Method and system for real time stent enhancement on live 2D fluoroscopic scene

A method and a scheduling system are disclosed for processing medical scheduling data which relates to the job planning for a medical appliance and of which each scheduling data item is associated with a data level. In at least one embodiment of the method a data level association is determined for each scheduling data item to be displayed, wherein the data level association relates to the data level associated with the scheduling data item, the data level or data levels currently to be displayed are ascertained, the data level association of the scheduling data item to be displayed is compared with the data level or data levels which are currently to be displayed, and the scheduling data item to be displayed is displayed if the data level association corresponds to at least one data level which is currently to be displayed.

Layers in the appointment book

A method is provided for visualization of hollow organs of a patient. An x-ray image dataset of the hollow organ is recorded and registered. A number of individual x-ray images are recorded during a movement of an instrument with a data capture unit through the hollow organ, with each individual x-ray image featuring time information. Datasets of a data capture unit of an instrument is recorded during the movement of the instrument, with each dataset featuring time information. Position of the instrument is determined based on the individual x-ray images by an image recognition algorithm. The datasets of the data capture unit and the position of the instrument is spatially assigned based on the time information of the datasets of the data capture unit and the individual x-ray images. The datasets of the data capture unit is jointly displayed with the x-ray image dataset.

Visualization method and imaging system

Growing community of inventors

Bamberg, Germany

Markus Rossmeier