Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ultrasound transducer tile registration
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Application No.: US16334869Application Date: 2017-09-20
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Publication No.: US11457897B2Publication Date: 2022-10-04
- Inventor: Shyam Bharat , Ramon Quido Erkamp , Man Nguyen , Jun Seob Shin , Jean-Luc Francois-Marie Robert
- Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: EP16194511 20161019
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/073766 WO 20170920
- International Announcement: WO2018/054969 WO 20180329
- Main IPC: A61B8/08
- IPC: A61B8/08 ; G06T7/33 ; G01S15/89 ; A61B8/00 ; A61B17/34

Abstract:
An ultrasound imaging system (1) comprises an ultrasound transducer array (100) comprising a plurality of ultrasound transducer tiles (101a-d), each of said tiles having an independently adjustable orientation such as to conform an ultrasound transmitting surface to a region of a body (50) including a foreign object such as a pacemaker, a stent, or an interventional tool (200). Using a known spatial arrangement of a plurality of features (201-204) of the foreign object (200), the respective ultrasound images generated by the ultrasound transducer tiles are registered in order to generate a composite image, in which the position and orientation of the foreign object in the individual images is superimposed. The position and orientation of an interventional tool may be determined for each image using object recognition algorithms or using acoustic feedback information provided by at least three ultrasound sensors (201-204) arranged in a known spatial arrangement on the interventional tool.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200022680A1 ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER TILE REGISTRATION Public/Granted day:2020-01-23
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