Vascular image co-registration

• Main Authors: HUENNEKENS, R. SCOTT, WALKER, BLAIR D, BURGESS, VINCENT J, FRY, STEPHEN M, KANZ, WILLIAM R, POOL, NANCY PERRY, KLINGENSMITH, JON D
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 17.09.2014
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY; DIAGNOSIS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; SURGERY

A system and method for providing a vascular image are disclosed wherein a single composite display simultaneously provides a first view of a patient including an angiogram image and a second view including an intravascular image rendered from information provided by an imaging probe on distal end of a flexible elongate member. A cursor, haying a position derived from image information provided by a radiopaque marker proximate the imaging probe, is displayed within the angiogram image to correlate the of the imaging probe to a presently displayed intravascular image and thus provide an easily discernable identification of a position within a patient corresponding to a currently displayed intravascular image.; The resulting composite display simultaneously provides: an intravascular image that includes information about a vessel that is not available from an angiogram and a current location within a vessel of a source of intravascular image data from which the intravascular image is rendered.