MEDICAL IMAGE REGISTRATION BY MEANS OF OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY
First Claim
1. A medical image registration method in which an actual part of a patient'"'"'s body is locationally assigned to a stored image of the part of the body with computer assistance, wherein the part of the patient'"'"'s body comprises a rigid structure and a soft-tissue structure above it, wherein the location of at least one reference point on the rigid structure is ascertained, through the closed soft-tissue structure, by means of optical coherence tomography (OCT), when detecting the actual spatial location of the part of the body.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a medical image registration method in which an actual part of a patient'"'"'s body is locationally assigned to a stored image of the part of the body with computer assistance, wherein the part of the patient'"'"'s body comprises a rigid structure and a soft-tissue structure above it, wherein the location of at least one reference point on the rigid structure is ascertained, through the closed soft-tissue structure, by means of optical coherence tomography (OCT), when detecting the actual spatial location of the part of the body. It also relates to a pointer unit of a medical image registration apparatus, which comprises an optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanner or its emitting unit.
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- 1. A medical image registration method in which an actual part of a patient'"'"'s body is locationally assigned to a stored image of the part of the body with computer assistance, wherein the part of the patient'"'"'s body comprises a rigid structure and a soft-tissue structure above it, wherein the location of at least one reference point on the rigid structure is ascertained, through the closed soft-tissue structure, by means of optical coherence tomography (OCT), when detecting the actual spatial location of the part of the body.
- 16. A pointer unit of a medical image registration apparatus, with the aid of which an actual part of a patient'"'"'s body is locationally assigned to a stored image of the part of the body with computer assistance, wherein the pointer unit identifies and/or indicates a reference point for assignment, wherein the pointer unit comprises an optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanner or its emitting unit.
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