US 12,082,980 B2
Imaging device and method of operating the same
Armin Stranjak, Uttenreuth (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Oct. 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/081,964.
Claims priority of application No. 19205641 (EP), filed on Oct. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0121262 A1, Apr. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 90/37 (2016.02) [A61B 17/3403 (2013.01); A61B 2090/374 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3762 (2016.02)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating an imaging device, the method being guidable by N elongate guide members, the N elongate guide members being physical elongate guide members, the method comprising:
establishing N+1 first spatial imaging planes each having an intersection with each of the N elongate guide members;
determining a spatial orientation of each of the N elongate guide members based on the intersection of the respective guide member with each of the first spatial imaging planes;
identifying at least one second spatial imaging plane along the respective determined spatial orientation of each of the N elongate guide members;
acquiring an image along a second spatial imaging plane of the at least one second spatial imaging plane; and
displaying the image,
wherein the number N of elongate guide members is a positive integer.