US 12,446,840 B2
Guidance for positioning a patient in medical imaging
Heiner Matthias Brueck, Pinneberg (DE); Stewart Matthew Young, Hamburg (DE); André Goossen, Eldena (DE); Sven Kroenke, Hamburg (DE); Daniel Bystrov, Hamburg (DE); and Jens Von Berg, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 18/037,573
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Nov. 12, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/081465
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 18, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/106305, PCT Pub. Date May 27, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 20209121 (EP), filed on Nov. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0404495 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2022.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/04 (2006.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01)
CPC A61B 6/0492 (2013.01) [A61B 6/547 (2013.01); G06T 7/74 (2017.01); G06T 2207/20224 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for positioning a subject in medical imaging, comprising:
receiving a first image of a region of interest of the subject;
determining first positioning data based on the first image, wherein the first positioning data indicates an alignment of the region of interest relative to a first image acquisition unit used to acquire the first image;
determining guidance data based on the first positioning data, wherein the guidance data comprises a guidance for an alignment of the region of interest relative to a second image acquisition unit used to acquire a second image from a current alignment of the region of interest to the second image acquisition unit to a target alignment of the region of interest to the second image acquisition unit, wherein the target alignment corresponds to an alignment of the region of interest relative to a first image acquisition unit derived from the first positioning data;
providing the guidance data for acquiring the second image.