Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Pascal Yves François Cathier

Raoul Florent

Olivier Pierre Nempont

Neriman Nicoletta Kahya

Molly Lara Flexman

Paul Thienphrapa

Wilhelmus Henrica Gerarda Maria Van Den Boomen

Guillaume Julien Joseph Pizaine

Torre Michelle Bydlon

The invention relates to a navigation assistance system for assisting in navigating an interventional instrument within a subject. An implanted object opening model () and a vessel opening model () are generated based on a provided interventional image data set, wherein the models define a respective position, shape and dimension in a frame of reference. These models and a position, which is also provided in the frame of reference, and optionally also a shape () of the interventional instrument are used for generating a graphical representation showing the implanted object opening model, the vessel opening model and the provided position and optionally shape of the interventional instrument, thereby providing guidance for a physician, which allows the physician to relatively easily navigate the interventional instrument such that it is moved through the opening of the implanted object and through the opening of the vessel.

Navigation assistance system

An OSS animated display system for an interventional device () including an integration of one or more optical shape sensors and one or more interventional tools. The OSS animated display system employs a monitor () and a display controller () for controlling a real-time display on the monitor () of an animation of a spatial positional relationship between the OSS interventional device () and an object (). The display controller () derives the animation of the spatial positional relationship between the OSS interventional device () and the object () from a shape of the optical shape sensor(s).

Animated position display of an OSS interventional device

A method for ultrasound image acquisition for tracking an object of interest in ultrasound image information includes receiving X-ray image information and ultrasound image information, determining, before the tracking, a spatial relationship between the X-ray image information and the ultrasound image information, detecting an object of interest in the X-ray image information and steering two-dimensional ultrasound image acquisition such that the object of interest is within an ultrasound image plane.

Integration of ultrasound and x-ray modalities

The present invention relates to an medical interventional imaging device () for monitoring an interventional procedure, the medical interventional imaging device () comprising: a temporary data buffer () configured to temporarily store medical interventional fluoroscopic image data; a signal processor () configured to detect if an abnormal state occurs during an intervention and to record an instant at which the abnormal state has occurred; and a permanent data storage () configured to permanently store at least a part of the medical interventional fluoroscopic image data stored temporarily before and/or at the recorded instant if the abnormal state is detected.

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Asnières-sur-Seine, France

Pascal Yves François Cathier