Method and device for optimizing the image display on imaging apparatuses of a medical system during a medical procedure

• US 7,851,736 B2
• Filed: 03/08/2007
• Issued: 12/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GMBH (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Spahn, Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): Luu; Thanh X
• Assistant Examiner(s): Legasse, Jr.; Francis M
• Application Number:
  US11/715,536
• Publication Number:
  US 20070230666A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,377 Days
• Field of Search: 250/208.1, 250/205, 348/222.1, 348/78, 348/50, 348/207, 348/68, 348/73, 351/237, 382/260, 345/10, 345/11, 378/64, 378/65, 378114-117, 378/145, 378/190, 378/210
• US Class Current: 250/205
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00216 with eye tracking or head position tracking control
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/376 using X-rays, e.g. fluoroscopy
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/00 Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis; Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis combined with radiation therapy equipment instruments measuring radiation intensity for application in the field of nuclear medicine, e.g. in vivo counting, G01T1/161; apparatus for taking X-ray photographs G03B42/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/461 Displaying means of special interest
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/30 Devices for illuminating a surgical field, the devices having an interrelation with other surgical devices or with a surgical procedure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/36 Image-producing devices or illumination devices not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/361 Image-producing devices, e.g. surgical cameras

Abstract

A method and a device for optimizing the image display on imaging apparatuses register whether an operator is looking at the imaging apparatus. The image display of the imaging apparatus is optimized, when it is registered that the operator is looking at the imaging apparatus and namely by dimming the room lighting and/or by increasing the contrast of the imaging apparatus.

Claims

1. A method for optimizing an image display on an imaging apparatus of a medical system during a medical procedure, comprising:

monitoring whether an operator of the medical system is looking at the imaging apparatus; and

dimming a lighting in a room of the medical system if the operator is looking at the imaging apparatus for optimizing the image display on the imaging apparatus,

wherein a camera monitors an eye of the operator to determine whether the operator of the medical system is looking at the imaging apparatus.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the imaging apparatus is a monitor.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the imaging apparatus is a video projector.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a light source is attached to a head of the operator and a light receiver is arranged on the imaging apparatus for monitoring whether the operator is looking at the imaging apparatus.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the medical system is an x-ray system.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dimming is controlled according to a diagnostic content of the image display.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the imaging apparatus displays an image which is logged by the x-ray system.

8. A method for optimizing an image display on an imaging apparatus of a medical system during a medical procedure, comprising:

monitoring whether an operator of the medical system is looking at the imaging apparatus; and

increasing a contrast of the imaging apparatus if the operator is looking at the imaging apparatus for optimizing the image display on the imaging apparatus,

wherein a camera monitors an eye of the operator to determine whether the operator of the medical system is looking at the imaging apparatus.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein a light source is attached to a head of the operator and a light receiver is arranged on the imaging apparatus for monitoring whether the operator is looking at the imaging apparatus.

10. A device for optimizing an image display on an imaging apparatus of a medical system during a medical procedure, comprising:

a monitoring device that monitors whether an operator of the medical system is looking at the imaging apparatus; and

a controller that optimizes the image display on the imaging apparatus if the operator is looking at the imaging apparatus,

wherein the monitoring device is a camera that monitors an eye of the operator to determine whether the operator of the medical system is looking at the imaging apparatus.

11. The device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the controller optimizes the image display on the imaging apparatus by dimming a lighting in a room of the medical system.

12. The device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the controller optimizes the image display on the imaging apparatus by increasing a contrast of the imaging apparatus.

13. The device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the imaging apparatus is a monitor.

14. The device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the imaging apparatus is a video projector.

15. The device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the monitoring device comprises a light source attached to a head of the operator and a light receiver arranged on the imaging apparatus.

16. The device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the controller is integrated into a control device of the medical system.

17. The device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the medical system is an x-ray system.

18. The device as claimed in claim 17, wherein the imaging apparatus displays an image which is logged by the x-ray system.