摘要:
A hand-held medical ultrasound apparatus (10), in particular for ultrasound computed tomography of the breast, comprises an ultrasound transducer (1), a reflector (2) and an indicator (311,321, 312) enabling the indication of a relative position and/or orientation between the transducer and the reflector. In a first embodiment, the transducer and the reflector are attached to a mechanical structure comprising a first frame (33) and a second frame (34), which allow to adjust the distance (d) between the transducer and the reflector in order to adapt to the shape of the breast. In a second embodiment, the tranducer and the reflector are not mechanically connected and a position and/or orientation sensor is provided to determine a relative position and/or orientation between the transducer and the reflector. In a third embodiment, thin resonant reflector layers are applied to introduce acoustic signatures in the tracked reflector signals.
标题翻译:ZUSAMMENSETZUNGEN,VORRICHTUNGEN UND VERFAHREN ZUR DIAGNOSE VON HERZINSUFFIZIENZ UND ZUR PATIENTENSPEZIFISCHEN MODELLIERUNG ZUR VORHERSAGE DER ERGEBNISSE VON KARDIALER RESYNCHRONISATIONSTHERAPIE
摘要:
in alternative embodiments, provided are compositions, medical devices or products of manufacture, systems, diagnostic tools, and methods, including computer implemented methods, for predicting the response of patients with dyssynchronous heart 10 failure (DHF) to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), comprising: measuring or determining the fraction of the LV/septum performing negative work (MNW); and measuring or determining the coefficient of variation of external work density (COVW), wherein the MNW fraction performing negative work and coefficient of variation COVW (sd/mean) correlated strongly with observed reduction in end-systolic volume after CRT.
摘要:
The present application is directed to a medical system comprising one or more optical sensors configured to be coupled to a patient's chest, and a controller configured to determine patient's respiration based on signals received from the one or more optical sensors. Further, the present application is directed to a medical system comprising one or more optical sensors configured to be coupled to a patient's body and/or a structure used to stabilize the patient's body, and a controller configured to determine one or more position and/or orientation variables of the patient's body based on signals received from the one or more optical sensors. Finally, the present application is also directed to methods corresponding to the features of the above mentioned medical systems.
摘要:
The present application is directed to a medical system comprising: an image capture device; one or more optical sensors coupled to the image capture device; and a controller configured to determine one or more position and/or orientation variables of the image capture device based on signals received from the one or more optical sensors. Further, the present application is directed to a corresponding method for determining one or more position and/or orientation variables of an image capture device, the method comprising the following steps: coupling one or more optical sensors to the image capture device; and determining, using a processor, one or more position and/or orientation variables of the image capture device based on signals received from the one or more optical sensors.
摘要:
An ultrasound probe includes: an ultrasound input/output unit to output a transmission ultrasound to a test object by a pulse signal; and a signal input/output unit to output a reception signal when the ultrasound input/output unit receives a reflected ultrasound from the test object, wherein the ultrasound probe is set so that a difference between maximum and minimum values of a group delay in a transmission/reception frequency band at -20 dB of the ultrasonic probe is equal to or less than 0.15 radian, the group delay being obtained from a phase difference for each frequency between the input pulse signal and the reception signal obtained from the reflected ultrasound of the transmission ultrasound output by the pulse signal, or so that a standard deviation of the group delay in the transmission/reception frequency band at -20 dB of the ultrasonic probe is equal to or less than 0.025.
摘要:
A left atrial pressure measurement device includes: a measurement section that measures a first index value that indicates performance of a right ventricle, and a second index value that indicates performance of a left ventricle; and a calculation section that calculates a left atrial pressure using the first index value, the second index value, and a measured right atrial pressure.
摘要:
Even when electroacoustic conversion elements with high nonlinearity are employed, a nonlinear imaging is carried out with extracting more nonlinear components. An ultrasonic wave beam is transmitted twice from the transmitter to an identical position on the imaging target, and the signal processor performs computation on the reception signals obtained in every transmission performed twice, thereby extracting a nonlinear component included in the reception signals. In one transmission out of the transmission performed twice, the transmitter delivers the transmission signal to all of multiple electroacoustic conversion elements for driving the electroacoustic conversion elements, and in the other transmission, the transmission signal is delivered selectively only to a part of the multiple electroacoustic conversion elements for driving the electroacoustic conversion elements.
摘要:
The invention relates to a temperature distribution determining apparatus for determining a temperature distribution within an object caused by applying energy to the object. A temperature distribution measuring unit (6, 7) measures a spatially and temporally dependent first temperature distribution in the object (3), while the energy is applied to the object (3) such that the object (3) is heated to a temperature within a first temperature range, and a temperature distribution estimating unit (5) estimates a spatially and temporally dependent second temperature distribution in the object (3) within a second temperature range, which is different to the first temperature range, based on the spatial and temporal dependence of the measured first temperature distribution. Since temperature distributions can be obtained not only in the first temperature range, but also in the second temperature range, the overall temperature range, in which the temperature distribution can be determined, can be increased.