METHOD FOR POSTURAL INDEPENDENT LOCATION OF TARGETS IN DIAGNOSTIC IMAGINES ACQUIRED BY MULTIMODAL ACQUISITIONS AND SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT THE SAID METHOD

摘要

A method for postural independent location of targets in diagnostic imagines acquired by multimodal acquisitions, the method allowing to compensate for the deformation to which soft tissues are subject by changing posture of the patient and particularly in the conditions in which such deformations have an effect on the external visible shape of parts of the body or of the object. The method comprises the following steps: generating a transition of a digital image of the inside of a target region from a first to a second position of the said target region by correlating the position of markers placed on the external surface of the target region in the digital image of the inside of the target region and in a digital representation of the surface of the target region acquired by optical scanning the said surface; And in a later time registering the said diagnostic image of the inside of the target region which has been transitioned into the second position with a diagnostic image of the same target region acquired with the target region in the said second position by matching a second representation of the external surface of the target body in the said second position without markers with the said diagnostic image of the inside of the target region which has been transitioned into the second position.