DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CORRELATION OF AN ULTRASOUND IMAGE AND AN X-RAY IMAGE

摘要

The invention relates to a device and a method for mutual correlation of an ultrasound image (US) and an X-ray image (X) of the same body volume (1). The spatial positions of the X-ray system (2, 6) and the ultrasound system (3) are then determined by a position determining system (4). With the help of the data thus obtained and a corresponding calibration of the systems, the points of the ultrasound image (US) can be transformed into the corresponding points of the X-ray image (X). In this way the ultrasound image can be displayed superimposed on the X-ray image (and vice versa).