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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2007
Applicants:
Karl Barth, Höchstadt, DE;
Gerd Wessels, Effeltrich, DE;
Inventors:
Karl Barth, Höchstadt, DE;
Gerd Wessels, Effeltrich, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61F 2/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a method for virtual adaptation of an object to be medically inserted in a patient, to a body part of the patient, the object is shown in a desired view on a monitor, the body part is shown in 3D on the monitor, the body part in its unchanged 3D-imaging context, is automatically displaced relative to the object until the object is adapted to the body part with the orientation of the object relative to the monitor remaining unchanged.