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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2013
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventor:
Peter Belei, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/08 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/463 (2013.01); A61B 6/4405 (2013.01); A61B 6/4441 (2013.01); A61B 6/547 (2013.01); A61B 6/587 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to the adjustment of movable X-ray imaging systems for aligning an object of interest and an X-ray imaging arrangement and comprises an X-ray imaging arrangement with a source and detector, at least one camera, a data processor; and a display, wherein the display is configured to display a graphical representation of at least one reference point in a first image at least partly overlaid with an actual image provided by the at least one camera to guide an alignment movement of the X-ray source and/or the X-ray detector and an object in relation to each other after an intermediate displacement.