Method and device for obtaining a volume data set of a mobile tissue or organ of a patient

• US 20100104164A1
• Filed: 04/04/2008
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Biosense Webster Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson), Siemens Healthineers AG (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Biosense Webster Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson), Siemens AG
• Inventors: Bartal, Meir, Govari, Assaf, Rahn, Norbert, John, Matthias, Boese, Jan, Preiss, Assaf
• Granted Patent: US 8,315,452 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/132
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1127 using markers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4441 the rigid structure being a C-arm or U-arm
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/503 for diagnosis of the heart
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/583 using calibration phantoms

Abstract

A method and a device for obtaining a volume data set of a mobile tissue or organ of a patient by a C-arm X-ray device are provided. An electromagnetic sensor of a position detection system is arranged indirectly on the tissue or organ. The X-ray device obtains a plurality of X-ray projections from the tissue or organ from various projection directions. A first method consists of reconstructing a volume data set from the X-ray projections, in which the electromagnetic sensor adopts a position characterizing a displacement phase of the tissue or organ. A second method consists of reconstructing a volume data set from the X-ray projections captured when the electromagnetic sensor was located in a position characterizing a displacement phase of the tissue or organ. A third method does not capture an X-ray projection for the reconstruction if the electromagnetic sensor is located in a position characterizing a displacement phase.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A method for obtaining a volume data set of a mobile object of a patient by a C-arm X-ray device and an electromagnetic position detection system, comprising:

arranging an electromagnetic sensor of the electromagnetic position detection system on the object;

recording a plurality of X-ray projections of the object from various projection directions by the C-arm X-ray device;

detecting the electromagnetic sensor in the X-ray projections; and

reconstructing the volume data set from the X-ray projections in which the electromagnetic sensor corresponds to a position characterizing a determined displacement phase of the object.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the electromagnetic sensor is detected by pattern recognition.

17. The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the volume data set is reconstructed from the X-ray projections in which the electromagnetic sensor adopts the position characterizing the determined displacement phase of the object.

18. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the electromagnetic sensor is simultaneously detected by the electromagnetic position detection system when recording the X-ray projections.

19. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the volume data set is reconstructed from the X-ray projections in which the electromagnetic sensor is located in the position characterizing the determined displacement phase of the object.

20. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the electromagnetic sensor is detected by the electromagnetic position detection system.

21. The method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the X-ray projections are recorded only if the electromagnetic sensor is located in the position characterizing the determined displacement phase.

22. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the mobile object is a heart or lungs of the patient.

23. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the C-arm X-ray device is connected to the position detection system via an interface for exchanging position data with one another.

24. The method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising:

arranging an electromagnetic body sensor on a surface of a body of the patient, wherein the electromagnetic body sensor is an X-ray positive electromagnetic body sensor or an electromagnetic body sensor provided with an X-ray position marker,

detecting a movement of the patient by the electromagnetic body sensor, and

correcting the X-ray projections recorded during the movement.

25. The method as claimed in claim 24, wherein the C-arm X-ray device and the electromagnetic position detection system are registered with one another.

26. The method as claimed in claim 25, wherein the registration comprises a determination of a coordinate transformation between an image coordinate system assigned to the C-arm X-ray device and a coordinate system assigned to the position detection system according to the electromagnetic body sensor.

27. The method as claimed in claim 25, wherein an image of the electromagnetic sensor is superimposed on the X-ray projections based on the projection directions and a position of the electromagnetic sensor.

28. The method as claimed in claim 24, wherein projection matrices of the C-arm X-ray device are redetermined based on a position of the electromagnetic sensor, the X-ray projections, and a position of the electromagnetic body sensor.

29. The method as claimed in claim 28, wherein the redetermined projection matrices are used for the reconstruction.

30. The method as claimed in claim 28,

wherein projection matrices of the C-arm X-ray device that are determined previously are corrected by the redetermined projection matrices if alterations are detected, and

wherein the corrected projection matrices are used for the reconstruction.

31. The method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising:

recording an EKG signal or data of respiration cycle of the patient, and

transmitting the EKG signal or the data of the respiration cycle to the C-arm X-ray device or the position detection system.

32. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the electromagnetic sensor is an X-ray positive electromagnetic sensor or an electromagnetic sensor provided with an X-ray position marker.

33. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the electromagnetic sensor is arranged indirectly on the object.

34. A device for reconstructing a volume data set of a mobile object of a patient, comprising:

a C-arm X-ray device that recodes a plurality of X-ray projections of the object from various projection directions;

an electromagnetic position detection system comprising an electromagnetic sensor that is arranged on the object; and

a computational device that reconstructs the volume data set from the X-ray projections in which the electromagnetic sensor corresponds to a position characterizing a determined displacement phase of the object.