Invention Publication
- Patent Title: SYSTEM FOR TRACKING AN ULTRASONIC PROBE IN A BODY PART
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Application No.: EP16801241.7Application Date: 2016-11-25
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Publication No.: EP3349660A1Publication Date: 2018-07-25
- Inventor: WEBER, Frank, Michael , NIJHOF, Niels , WEESE, Juergen
- Applicant: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Applicant Address: High Tech Campus 5 5656 AE Eindhoven NL
- Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: High Tech Campus 5 5656 AE Eindhoven NL
- Agency: Drapeau-Paquin, François
- Priority: EP15196173 20151125
- International Announcement: WO2017089509 20170601
- Main IPC: A61B6/12
- IPC: A61B6/12 ; A61B6/00 ; A61B8/08 ; A61B8/12 ; A61B8/00 ; G06T7/00
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a system for tracking the position of an ultrasonic probe in a body part. It is described to acquire (110) an X-ray image of a portion of a body part within which an ultrasonic probe (20) is positioned. First geometrical positional information of the ultrasonic probe in the portion of the body part is determined (120), utilizing the X-ray image. At least one ultrasonic image comprising a part of a body feature with the ultrasonic probe is acquired (130), the acquiring (130) comprising acquiring (140) an ultrasonic image of the at least one ultrasonic image at a later time than a time of acquisition of the X-ray image. Second geometrical positional information of the ultrasonic probe in the body part at the later time is determined (150), comprising utilizing the first geometrical positional information and the at least one ultrasonic image comprising the part of the body feature.
Public/Granted literature
- EP3349660B1 SYSTEM FOR TRACKING AN ULTRASONIC PROBE IN A BODY PART Public/Granted day:2019-03-27
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