APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC AND FOR MEDICAL GUIDED INTERVENTIONS AND THERAPY

摘要

The apparatus, and methods introduced in the present invention are enabled to measure the relative position between different medical imaging devices (18)(152), betweeen the image planes, and/or image volumes produced by them by means of using a position measuring system based with attachable position measuring components (28)(30). This facilitates image fusing when images of the same plane/volume are available from different medical imaging systems. Additionally/alternately it enables to position a second medical imaging device over a desire area/volume according to information received from the image produced by the first medical imaging device.