ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,173, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Brainlab SE (Munich).
"Combining angiographic information with fluoroscopic images" was invented by Martin Adamski (Munich) and Ferdinand Storch (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, one or more image pairs, each consisting of a fluoroscopic image and an angiographic image taken from the same position and the same viewing direction onto the patient and each being a non-stitched image, are acquired. A live fluoroscopic image is registered individually with the fluoroscopic image within the at least one of the one or more image pairs, such that the spatial rel...