Patents Assigned to Charite-Universitatsmedzin Berlin
  • Method and system for virtual endoscopy with guidance for biopsy
    Patent number: 7536216
    Abstract: A method for virtual endoscopy in a lumen includes acquiring from a patient an imaging dataset exhibiting a lesion external to a lumen wall; deriving a three-dimensional (3-D) volume of the lesion; obtaining data on maximum bend characteristics for a given endoscope; and deriving projection criteria, based on the 3-D volume and the maximum bend, for projecting an endoluminal image of said lesion, indicating an optimal biopsy insertion point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignees: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Charite-Universitatsmedzin Berlin
    Inventors: Bernhard Geiger, Guido M. Weiner