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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2006
Meir Bar-zohar, Haifa, IL;
Avi Yaron, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Meir Bar-Zohar, Haifa, IL;
Avi Yaron, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Visionsense Ltd., Petah Tikva, IL;
Abstract
System for displaying an augmented image of an organ of a patient, including an image fusion processor coupled with a stereoscopic image detector, a tomographic image processor, and with a display, the tomographic image processor being further coupled with a tomographic image detector, the stereoscopic image detector producing a pair of stereoscopic images respective of an exposed region of the organ, the tomographic image detector acquiring at least one two dimensional image of a concealed region of the organ, the concealed region being concealed from the view of the stereoscopic image detector, the tomographic image processor producing at least one tomographic image representation of the concealed region, according to an output of the tomographic image detector, the image fusion processor registering the pair of stereoscopic images with the tomographic image representation, the image fusion processor producing the augmented image, by superimposing the tomographic image representation on the pair of stereoscopic images, the display displaying the augmented image.