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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2008
Applicants:
Benno Heigl, Coburg, DE;
Norbert Rahn, Forchheim, DE;
James Williams, Nürnberg, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
To make optimum use of an x-ray image recording system with an x-ray C-arm, which has an x-ray radiation source and an x-ray detector and can be pivoted about any axis, 2D axis lines are plotted in two x-ray images of an object to be imaged more precisely and these 2D axis lines are used to define a 3D axis line and the x-ray image recording system is set so that it can be directly pivoted precisely about this 3D axis line. A sequence of x-ray images is then recorded in positions of the x-ray C-arm, between which the same can be pivoted about this defined axis. This displays the object optimally.