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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2012
Steffen Weiss, Hamburg, DE;
Ronaldus Frederik Johannes Holthuizen, Best, NL;
Sascha Krueger, Hamburg, DE;
Peter Koken, Hamburg, DE;
Daniel Wirtz, Hamburg, DE;
Thomas Erik Amthor, Hamburg, DE;
Falk Uhlemann, Hamburg, DE;
Steffen Weiss, Hamburg, DE;
Ronaldus Frederik Johannes Holthuizen, Best, NL;
Sascha Krueger, Hamburg, DE;
Peter Koken, Hamburg, DE;
Daniel Wirtz, Hamburg, DE;
Thomas Erik Amthor, Hamburg, DE;
Falk Uhlemann, Hamburg, DE;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A medical apparatus () comprising a magnetic resonance imaging system and an interventional device () comprising a shaft (). The medical apparatus further comprises a toroidal magnetic resonance fiducial marker () attached to the shaft. The shaft passes through a center point () of the fiducial marker. The medical apparatus further comprises machine executable instructions () for execution by a processor. The instructions cause the processor to acquire () magnetic resonance data, to reconstruct () a magnetic resonance image (), and to receive () the selection of a target volume (). The instructions further cause the processor to repeatedly: acquire () magnetic resonance location data () from the fiducial marker and render () a view () indicating the position of the shaft relative to the target zone.