Method for ultrasound guidance during clinical procedures

摘要

A method for generating quasi-realtime feedback for the purpose of guiding surgical, therapeutic or diagnostic procedures by means of ultrasound imaging, wherein the location of a surgical tool, therapeutic radiation field or a diagnostic energy field is related to the coordinate system of an intraoperative 2D and/or 3D ultrasound imaging system and, optionally, to pre-operative MR/CT/X-ray data, thus allowing synchronized relations between data acquisition, tool movement and image visualizations.