System and method for imaging
First Claim
1. A system for determining presence or absence of a thermally distinguishable object in a living body, the system comprising:
- a combined image generator configured for combining non-thermographic three-dimensional data of a three-dimensional tissue region in the living body with thermographic two-dimensional data of said tissue region so as to generate three-dimensional temperature data associated with said three-dimensional tissue region.
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Abstract
A system for determining presence or absence of one or more thermally distinguishable objects in a living body is disclosed. The system comprises a combined image generator configured for combining non-thermographic three-dimensional data of a three-dimensional tissue region in the living body with thermographic two-dimensional data of the tissue region so as to generate three-dimensional temperature data associated with the three-dimensional tissue region. In a preferred embodiment the combined image generator comprises a computing device configured for calculating the location and/or orientation of the thermally distinguishable object in the three-dimensional tissue region, based on the three-dimensional temperature data.
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1. A system for determining presence or absence of a thermally distinguishable object in a living body, the system comprising:
- a combined image generator configured for combining non-thermographic three-dimensional data of a three-dimensional tissue region in the living body with thermographic two-dimensional data of said tissue region so as to generate three-dimensional temperature data associated with said three-dimensional tissue region.
- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A method of determining presence or absence of a thermally distinguishable object in a living body, the method comprising:
- combining non-thermographic three-dimensional data of a three-dimensional tissue region in the living body with thermographic two-dimensional data of said tissue region so as to generate three-dimensional temperature data associated with said three-dimensional tissue region, thereby determining the presence or absence of the thermally distinguishable object.
- View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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