Abstract:
A medical holder device to which a flexible medical tooltip comprising an optical fibre can exchangeably be attached, the medical holder device comprising an optical fibre connector for receiving the proximal end of the optical fibre, a light source adapted to emit light into the optical fibre, a light receiver adapted to receive light reflected at the distal end of the optical fibre and to output a corresponding output signal and a processing unit adapted to receive the output signal from the light receiver and to calculate a bending of the optical fibre.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a data processing method of determining a trajectory of a medical instrument to be inserted into a patient's body for treatment of a target region in the patient's body, the method being executed by a computer and comprising the following steps: a) acquiring medical image data comprising medical image information describing an image of an anatomical body part; b) acquiring target region extent data comprising target region extent information describing a spatial extent of the target region in the medical image information; c) determining, based on the target region extent data, whether the spatial extent of the target region in the medical image information comprises more than one image particle; d) if it is determined that the target region comprises more than a predetermined number of image particles, determining, based on the medical image data, image particle weight data comprising image particle weight information describing a weight describing a tissue type component of the target region assigned to each target region image particle in the target region, which component is represented at least partly by the image particle, and determining, based on the image particle weight data and the medical image data, instrument trajectory data comprising instrument trajectory information describing a trajectory of the medical instrument along which the instrument is to be inserted into the patient's body.
Abstract:
A data processing method for determining data which are referred to as atlas data and comprise information on a description of an image of a general anatomical structure, wherein this image is referred to as the atlas image, the method comprising the following steps performed by a computer: • acquiring patient data which comprise a description of a set of images of an anatomical structure of a set of patients, wherein the images are referred to as patient images and each patient image is associated with a parameter set which comprises one or more parameters which obtain when the patient images are generated, wherein the parameters influence representations of anatomical elements as expressed by image values in the patient images; • acquiring model data which comprise information on a description of an image of a model of an anatomical structure of a (single or average or generic) patient which is referred to as the model image and is associated with the parameter set; • determining matching transformations which are referred to as PM transformations and which are constituted to respectively match the set of patient images of the set of patients to the model image by matching images associated with the same parameter set; • determining an inverse average transformation by applying an inverting and averaging operation to the determined PM transformations; and a) determining the atlas data by applying the determined inverse average transformation to the model data; or b) respectively applying the determined PM transformations to the respective patient images in order to determine matched patient images, averaging the matched patient images in order to determine an average matched patient image, and determining the atlas data by applying the determined inverse average transformation to the average matched patient image.
Abstract:
A medical marker device comprising a) a plurality of markers which are disposed on the marker device such that each marker of the plurality of markers displays mirror symmetry with respect to a mirror plane of symmetry which is common to all markers of the plurality of markers, b) an attaching unit for attaching the marker device to a marker holder, wherein the attaching unit is disposed on the mirror plane of symmetry.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a medical head holder, comprising: at least two opposing engagement members (1, 2) configured to engage the head of a patient; a frame (3, 4) comprising a first (3) and a second frame section (4) which are displaceably coupled to each other, each frame section (3, 4) supporting at least one of the engagement members (1, 2); connecting means (5) which allow the first and second frame sections (3, 4) to be displaced and by means of which the first and second frame sections (3, 4) are guided and can be detachably fixed to each other; coupling means (6) which are attached to the second frame section (4) and by means of which the second engagement member (2) is displaceably coupled to the second frame section (4) and can be fixed to the second frame section (4); a force applicator (7) which is detachably coupled to the second frame section (4) and acts on the coupling means (6) so as to cause the second engagement member (2) to be displaced and/or fixed relative to the second frame section (4).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a data processing method for determining an infusion location in an anatomical region of interest of a patient's body for infusing a medical substance, the method being executed by a computer and comprising steps of: a) acquiring permeability data comprising information about the permeability of anatomical vessels in the body; b) acquiring body vessels set data comprising information about a body vessel set, wherein the body vessel set represents a set of at least one anatomical body vessel in the patient's body and wherein the body vessel set data comprises information about the spatial structure of the at least one body vessel; c) acquiring coverage condition data comprising information about a predetermined coverage of a target region with the medical substance; d) determining, for a plurality of candidate infusion locations, candidate coverage data comprising information about a candidate coverage of a target region with the medical substance based on the permeability data, the body vessel set data and the coverage condition data; e) determining infusion location data comprising information about the infusion location based on the permeability data, the body vessel set data and the coverage condition data.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a surgical instrument comprising a handle portion or mounting portion and a functional portion and/or tip, wherein a display device is provided on the instrument and includes or enables displays which serve to assist in image-guided and/or navigation-assisted surgery. It also relates to a method for navigating a surgical instrument, wherein its position is determined and tracked by means of a medical tracking system and the position data is processed within the framework of medical navigation by means of a medical navigation system, wherein displays for navigation assistance and/or for assisting in image-guided surgery are provided on the instrument or on an element which is positionally assigned to the instrument or fastened to the instrument.
Abstract:
A device for determining the aperture angle of a joint includes a detection device for detecting positions of joint components and/or positions of structures connected to or to be connected to the joint and a computational unit for ascertaining the aperture angle of the joint based on the detected positions.
Abstract:
The disclosed method encompasses receiving an input video stream showing at least a part of at least one device which is in use in a medical environment. A device has a region of interest (ROI). The area of the input video stream which shows the region of interest of a device is extracted from the input video stream and provided as an ROI video stream. The ROI for example comprises a display, such that the information shown on the display is provided in the ROI video stream.
Abstract:
This document relates to technologies of determining a configuration of a medical imaging system comprising an x-ray source and an x-ray detector mounted on a gantry and an x-ray source collimator for shaping the x-ray beam emitted by the x-ray source, wherein at least one of the x-ray source and the x-ray detector is movable along the gantry. The configuration of the medical imaging system comprises the position of the x-ray source, the position of the x-ray detector and the settings of the x-ray source collimator and is to be used for capturing a marker image, wherein the position of the marker device can be calculated using the marker image.