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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2013
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks, Eindhoven, NL;
Theodoor Jacques Marie Ruers, Zeist, NL;
Susanne Dorien Van Den Berg-Dams, Eindhoven, NL;
Nicolaas Jan Noordhoek, Best, NL;
Robert Johannes Frederik Homan, Batenburg, NL;
Rami Nachabe, Eindhoven, NL;
Gerhardus Wilhelmus Lucassen, Eindhoven, NL;
Waltherus Cornelis Jozef Bierhoff, Veldhoven, NL;
Marjolein Van Der Voort, Valkenswaard, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, unknown;
Abstract
The invention relates to an imaging apparatus (). First and second image providing units () provide a first image showing a region of an object, which includes a resection part to be resected, and a second image showing the region of the object, after the resection procedure has been performed, or showing a resected part, which has been resected. A smallest margin determination unit () determines a smallest margin region being a region where a margin between the resection part and the resected part is smallest based on the first and second images. The smallest margin region is the region which most likely contains a part of the object, which should have been resected, like a cancerous part. An optionally following investigation of the resected part or of the remaining object can be more focused by considering this region, thereby allowing for faster corresponding assessing procedures.