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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2017
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Sivaramakrishnan Krishnaiyer Raman, Bangalore, IN;
Girish Bogadi Eswara Prasad, Bangalore, IN;
Kumar Raja Gattamaneni, Bangalore, IN;
Girish Kumar Chegu, Bangalore, IN;
Prashanth Honnemaradahalli Shivamurthy, Bangalore, IN;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A subject support () is configured to dock with a medical imaging device () with a fixed spatial relationship between the docked subject support and the medical imaging device. A patient positioning device includes a range camera () that acquires a two-dimensional (2D) range image of a human imaging subject () disposed on a subject support (). The range image has pixel values corresponding to distances from the range camera. An electronic processor () is programmed to perform a positioning method to determine a reference point on or in the human subject in a frame of reference (F) of the subject support from the 2D range image. This reference point is translated to a frame of reference (F) of the imaging device based on a priori known spatial relationship of the medical imaging device and the docked subject support. Using 3D models, the loading process may be simulated.