Abstract:
With a method for supporting an interventional medical operation, a 3-dimensional image data set is recorded before the method. A positioning system is coupled with the coordinates system of the 3-dimensional image data set. The instrument is positioned and the position of the instrument in the 3-dimensional image data set is determined as an instrument image data point 4. Two further target image data points are determined in the target region, in which the instrument is to be guided. A plane is defined in this way. In this plane, the image data is used for a 2-dimensional display. Both the instrument image data point and also the two target image data points can be identified on the display, so that the target region of an interventional operation and an interventional medical device are displayed on an image at the same time. The image can be tracked during the interventional medical operation.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an arrangement having a 3D device, the 3D device being embodied for acquiring an objects and generating a 3D acquisition result representing the object at least partially in at least three dimensions. The arrangement also has a 2D device, the 2D device being embodied for acquiring the object and generating a 2D acquisition result representing the object in at least two dimensions. The 2D acquisition result represents the object at least partially, in particular a top view of the object, a view through the object or a section through the objects. The invention is characterized in that the 3D devices and the 2D devices are connected to one another, mechanically electrically, in such a way that a part of the 3D acquisition result corresponding to an object location can be assigned to a part of the 2D acquisition result corresponding to the same object location.
Abstract:
A method and a device are disclosed for visually supporting an electrophysiology catheter application in the heart, whereby electroanatomical 3D mapping data of an area of the heart to be treated which are provided during performance of the catheter application are visualized. Before the catheter application is carried out, 3D image data of the area to be treated are recorded by way of a tomographical 3D imaging method, a 3D surface profile of objects in the area to be treated is extracted from the 3D image data by segmentation and the electroanatomical 3D mapping data provided and the 3D images representing the 3D surface profile are associated with each other in the correct position and dimension relative each other and e.g. visualized in a superimposed manner during the catheter application. The disclosed method and the corresponding device allow for an improved orientation of the user who carries out an electrophysiology catheter application in the heart.
Abstract:
To make interventional instruments such as catheters more easily identifiable in X-ray images, the catheters are provided with marking elements which can be recognized in the X-ray image. Examples of marking elements are sphere-shaped and ring-shaped marking elements, the ring-shaped marking elements being able to identify the catheters in the manner of a barcode and so being able to make different catheters distinguishable from one another in the X-ray image.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for “truncation correction” in an x-ray system, i.e. a correction method during the reconstruction of projection images of an object recorded from different projection angles, if parts of the object do not lie in the field of view of each projection image. The surface of the object is thereby optically detected and used during the reconstruction of projection images to supplement the missing image data.
Abstract:
Device for recording electrophysiological signals and for displaying the signals or signal information elements which are derived therefrom, comprising a catheter which includes a plurality of electrodes arranged in a distributed manner for signal recording and a rendition device for displaying the signals or the individual signal information elements which relate to the respective electrodes and are derived from the signals, wherein the signals or the signal information elements can be displayed in a display which is modeled on the geometric arrangement of the electrodes at the catheter or on the geometric arrangement of the electrodes during the signal recording.
Abstract:
In a method for representing preoperatively recorded three-dimentional image data when recording two-dimentional X-ray images, parameters for recording the two-dimentional X-ray images are placed in relation to two-dimentional representations of the three-dimentional image data and coupled thereto. When paraneters for recording the two-dimentional X-ray images change, corresponding two-dimentional representations of the three-dimentional image data are shown on a screen.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for the provision and use of configuration files containing essential configuration data for configuring technical devices. With the method the configuration data is uploaded by one or more participants in the method via a network onto a server and downloaded by users of the technical devices as configuration files from the server via the network. When a configuration file is downloaded by a user or when a downloaded configuration file is used by a user to configure a technical device, the participant who uploaded the configuration data of the downloaded or used configuration file onto the server receives a reimbursement. The present method simplifies the configuration of units for the users of technical devices and represents an incentive for experienced users to make the configurations they have created themselves also available to other users.
Abstract:
In a method for the intraoperative generating of an updated volume dataset, a first volume dataset is reconstructed from a series of n 2D X-ray projections (of a patient that are acquired at different angles. During a medical intervention, m 2D X-ray projections (m
Abstract:
Device for determining the relative position of two or more catheters in the human body, there being disposed on each catheter (4, 5), preferably in the area of the catheter tip, at least one measuring electrode (ME1-ME8; ME9, ME10) which can be connected to a voltage source together with one or more measuring electrodes of a further catheter, wherein the resistance between the measuring electrodes, and hence the distance of the measuring electrodes, can be determined via a current measurement.
Abstract translation:用于确定人体中两个或更多个导管的相对位置的装置,优选地在导管尖端的区域中设置在每个导管(4,5)上,至少一个测量电极(ME 1 -ME 8; ME 9,ME 10),其可以与另一个导管的一个或多个测量电极连接到电压源,其中测量电极之间的电阻以及测量电极的距离可以通过电流测量来确定。