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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2011
Lionel Desponds, St Remy-les-chevreuse, FR;
Pál Tegzes, Budapest, HU;
Székely György, Budapest, HU;
Régis Vaillant, Villebon sur Yvette, FR;
Tamás Ujvári, Biatorbágy, HU;
Zsolt Szabó, Somlóvásárhely, HU;
Vincent Bismuth, Paris, FR;
Lionel Desponds, St Remy-les-chevreuse, FR;
Pál Tegzes, Budapest, HU;
Székely György, Budapest, HU;
Régis Vaillant, Villebon sur Yvette, FR;
Tamás Ujvári, Biatorbágy, HU;
Zsolt Szabó, Somlóvásárhely, HU;
Vincent Bismuth, Paris, FR;
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for monitoring a radiation dose applied to a patient being exposed or having been exposed to radiation from a medical imaging system, the medical imaging system comprising an X-ray source, the X-ray source describing a trajectory in a coordinate system of reference of the medical imaging system having an origin, the method comprising determining the current coordinates, in the coordinate system of reference of the medical imaging system, of a current region being exposed or having been exposed to radiation from the X-ray source, of an envelope of a patient model, in relation to a current position of the X-ray source, determining, from the current coordinates, a current coordinate system of reference having as origin the current position of the X-ray source, the current coordinate system of reference being centered on the current region, and displaying a representation of the current region centered on the current coordinate system of reference.