摘要 |
To reproducibly position a patient in an imaging device, with regard to the coordinate system thereof, so that such a reproducible positioning of the same patient is additionally possible in another imaging device, so that the images generated with both modalities can be congruently overlaid for an image fusion, a body shell is adapted to the patient, the shell supporting the patient for positioning on the patient table. By shaping of the shell contour to conform to the shape of the contour of the table, the position of the shell on the table is defined. Both imaging devices are equipped with a table of the same shape. The desired adaptation of the respective geometries of the image generation systems is achieved by using shell as a test body, equipped with suitable landmarks that are delectable in the images of both modalities.
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