COMBINATION OF ULTRASOUND AND X-RAY SYSTEMS

The invention proposes to detect and track an intervention device in a 2D fluoroscopy image and to steer an ultrasound probe beam towards this device. Therefore, a method and corresponding system is proposed, by which an ultrasound probe is registered in a fluoroscopy image, wherein the registering...

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Hauptverfasser: FLORENT, Raoul, GOGIN, Nicolas P. B, CATHIER, Pascal Y. F
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:The invention proposes to detect and track an intervention device in a 2D fluoroscopy image and to steer an ultrasound probe beam towards this device. Therefore, a method and corresponding system is proposed, by which an ultrasound probe is registered in a fluoroscopy image, wherein the registering includes the estimation of the position and of the orientation of the probe relative to the fluoroscopy.