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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2013
Brainlab Ag, Munich, DE;
Brainlab AG, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A medical data processing method of determining a virtual image () of a part of a patient's body (), the method being constituted to be executed by a computer and comprising the following steps: a) acquiring (S) patient image data describing at least two two-dimensional patient images () of anatomical body parts () of the patient's body (); b) acquiring (S) atlas data describing a general structure () of at least part of the patient's body comprising correspondence parts corresponding to the anatomical body parts (); c) acquiring correspondence part position data describing the positions of the correspondence parts in the general structure (); determining (S, S, S), based on the patient image data and the atlas data and the correspondence part position data, virtual image data describing a two-dimensional virtual image () of a part () of the general structure () having a position in the general structure () which lies between the positions of the correspondence parts.