DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL IMAGING

The invention relates to a method and a device (1) for medical imaging, in particular intra-operative imaging of an area to be observed of a patient's body. In the invention, fluorescence and live images of the area to be observed are acquired by an imaging unit (3). A processing unit (4) is co...

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Hauptverfasser: Shirish, Joshi, Faisal, Kalim
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:The invention relates to a method and a device (1) for medical imaging, in particular intra-operative imaging of an area to be observed of a patient's body. In the invention, fluorescence and live images of the area to be observed are acquired by an imaging unit (3). A processing unit (4) is configured to adapt one or more image capturing or image processing parameters if the images are acquired in a static motion state. This reduces the image noise in the fluorescence images such that the processing unit is able to detect a region of interest in the fluorescence images. The fluorescence images and the corresponding live image depict the same sceneries. The processing unit maps the region of interest detected in the fluorescence images into the live images. If the images are acquired in a moving motion state, the region of interest may be tracked by the processing unit in the live images and mapped back into the fluorescence images. In the moving state, the processing unit is configured to apply a spatially selective noise filter which distinguishes between the region of interest and the remaining region enhancing the quality of the fluorescence images without erasing details with noise filtering in the fluorescence images.