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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2013
Volcano Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Richard Scott Huennekens, San Diego, CA (US);
Stephen M. Fry, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Blair D. Walker, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Jon D. Klingensmith, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Nancy Perry Pool, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Vincent J. Burgess, San Diego, CA (US);
William R. Kanz, Sacramento, CA (US);
Volcano Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing a vascular image are disclosed wherein a single composite display simultaneously provides a first view of a patient including an angiogram image and a second view including an intravascular image rendered from information provided by an imaging probe mounted on a distal end of a flexible elongate member. A cursor, having a position derived from image information provided by a radiopaque marker proximate the imaging probe, is displayed within the angiogram image to correlate the position of the imaging probe to a presently displayed intravascular image and thus provide an easily discernable identification of a position within a patient corresponding to a currently displayed intravascular image. The resulting composite display simultaneously provides: an intravascular image that includes information about a vessel that is not available from an angiogram and a current location within a vessel of a source of intravascular image data from which the intravascular image is rendered.