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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2009
Applicants:
Ram Nathaniel, Tel Aviv, IL;
Dan Rappaport, Tel Aviv, IL;
Ishay Goldin, Tel Aviv, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
ORTHOPEDIC NAVIGATION LTD., Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G01N 23/04 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 23/04 (2013.01); G06T 3/4038 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10121 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30008 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for generating a panoramic image of a region of interest (ROI) which is larger than a field of a view of a radiation based imaging device, comprising, positioning markers along the ROI, acquiring a set of images along the ROI, wherein the acquired images have at least partially overlapping portions, aligning at least two separate images by aligning a common marker found in both images and compensating for a difference between a distance from a radiation source to the marker element and the distance from the radiation source to a plane of interest.