Guiding system for positioning a patient for medical imaging

1. A guiding system for positioning a patient for medical image acquisition, the system comprising:

a patient position detecting device; and

a patient position prescribing device;

wherein the patient position detecting device is configured: to detect an anatomy of interest of a patient for the medical image acquisition; and to detect current spatial information of the anatomy of interest; and

wherein the patient position prescribing device is configured: to provide an initial target position, being a virtual scene of a virtual patient in the correct position, for the detected anatomy of interest during the image acquisition and to register a subset of the initial target position with the current spatial information of the anatomy of interest insofar said subset is clinically irrelevant for the medical image acquisition thereby providing for an adapted target position.

2. Guiding system according to claim 1 , wherein the patient position prescribing device is configured to generate image data of the adapted target position; and comprising a display device configured to display the generated image data of the adapted target position in an overlaid manner with the anatomy of interest.

3. Guiding system according to claim 2 , wherein the adapted target position comprises augmented reality information; and wherein the augmented reality information comprises a 3D virtual model of the detected anatomy of interest.

4. Guiding system according to claim 2 , wherein the display device is configured to display the adapted target position partly opaque.

5. Guiding system according to claim 4 , wherein the display device comprises a head-wearable display, through which a user can view the anatomy of interest, wherein the adapted target position is provided in an overlaid manner with the anatomy of interest viewed through the head-wearable display; and/or

a monitor, wherein the patient detecting device is configured to provide a visual representation of the anatomy of interest, and wherein the adapted target position is provided in an overlaid manner with said visual representation.

6. Guiding system according to claim 1 , wherein the current spatial information comprises a current position, a current pose and/or a current size.

7. Guiding system according to claim 1 , wherein the initial target position is associated with a predetermined examination type selected from:

a list in a database that comprises a plurality of examination types;

an electronic scheduling system; and/or

a plurality of tokens, each token associated with a respective predetermined examination type.

8. A medical imaging arrangement, comprising:

a guiding system according to claim 1 ;

and an image acquisition system

comprising a medical imaging source and a medical imaging detector; wherein the medical imaging source is configured to provide an imaging field detected by the medical imaging detector.

9. Medical imaging arrangement according to claim 8 , wherein the medical imaging arrangement comprises at least one of the group of:

an X-ray imaging arrangement; and

an ultrasound imaging arrangement.

10. Medical imaging arrangement according to claim 9 , wherein the medical imaging arrangement is further configured to provide and display:

a graphical target source representation comprising augmented reality information indicating a target position of the medical imaging source for the image acquisition; and/or

a graphical target detector representation comprising augmented reality information indicating a target position of the medical imaging detector for the image acquisition.

11. A method for guiding positioning of an anatomy of interest of a patient, comprising:

detecting an anatomy of interest of a patient for a medical image acquisition;

detecting current spatial information of the detected anatomy of interest;

providing an initial target position, being a virtual scene of a virtual patient in the correct position, for the detected anatomy of interest during the medical image acquisition;

adapting a subset of the initial target position with the current spatial information of the anatomy of interest insofar said subset is clinically irrelevant for the medical image acquisition; and

determining an adapted target position based on said adaptation.

12. Method according to claim 11 , further comprising:

generating image data of the adapted target position; and

displaying the generated image data of the adapted target position in an overlaid manner with the anatomy of interest.

13. Method according to claim 11 , further comprising:

providing and displaying a graphical target source representation comprising augmented reality information indicating a target position of the medical imaging source for the image acquisition, and/or a graphical target detector representation comprising augmented reality information indicating a target position of the medical imaging detector for the image acquisition.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium having one or more executable instructions stored thereon, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for guiding positioning of an anatomy of interest of a patient, the method comprising:

detecting an anatomy of interest of a patient for a medical image acquisition;

detecting current spatial information of the detected anatomy of interest;

providing an initial target position, being a virtual scene of a virtual patient in the correct position, for the detected anatomy of interest during the medial image acquisition;

adapting a subset of the initial target position with the current spatial information of the anatomy of interest insofar said subset is clinically irrelevant for the medial image acquisition; and

determining an adapted target position based on said adaption.