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公开(公告)号:US11540718B2
公开(公告)日:2023-01-03
申请号:US15103053
申请日:2014-12-05
Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Inventor: Irina Waechter-Stehle , Sabine Mollus , Christian Buerger , Emil George Radulescu , Sheng-Wen Huang , Juergen Weese
Abstract: An imaging steering apparatus includes sensors and an imaging processor configured for: acquiring, via multiple ones of the sensors and from a current position (322), and current orientation (324), an image of an object of interest; based on a model, segmenting the acquired image; and determining, based on a result of the segmenting, a target position (318), and target orientation (320), with the target position and/or target orientation differing correspondingly from the current position and/or current orientation. An electronic steering parameter effective toward improving the current field of view may be computed, and a user may be provided instructional feedback (144) in navigating an imaging probe toward the improving. A robot can be configured for, automatically and without need for user intervention, imparting force (142) to the probe to move it responsive to the determination.
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公开(公告)号:US11087466B2
公开(公告)日:2021-08-10
申请号:US16622375
申请日:2018-06-18
Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Inventor: Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon , William Hou , Jean-Luc Francois-Marie Robert , Emil George Radulescu , Ji Cao
Abstract: The invention provides a method for generating a compound ultrasound image. The method includes acquiring and beamforming channel data. Using the beamformed channel data a plurality of images, each image comprising a plurality of pixels, of a region of interest are obtained and an image information metric, wherein the image metric is associated with a pixel of the plurality of pixels, is assessed. The acquiring of the plurality of images and the assessment of the image metric are performed in parallel. For each image of the plurality of images: a per-pixel weighting for each pixel of the plurality of pixels based on the assessment of the image information metric is determined and applied to each pixel of the plurality of pixels. Finally a compound ultrasound image is generated based on the plurality of weighted pixels of the plurality of images.
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公开(公告)号:US10929951B2
公开(公告)日:2021-02-23
申请号:US16553211
申请日:2019-08-28
Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Inventor: Emil George Radulescu , Ivan Salgo , Sheng-Wen Huang , Ramon Quido Erkamp , Shougang Wang , Irina Waechter-Stehle , Christian Buerger , Sabine Mollus , Juergen Weese
IPC: G06T3/00 , G06T7/10 , G06T7/73 , A61B8/08 , A61B8/00 , G01S7/52 , G01S15/89 , H04N5/232 , G06T7/00 , H04N7/18 , A61B8/06
Abstract: An apparatus includes an imaging probe and is configured for dynamically arranging presentation of visual feedback for guiding manual adjustment, via the probe, of a location, and orientation, associated with the probe. The arranging is selectively based on comparisons between fields of view of the probe and respective results of segmenting image data acquired via the probe. In an embodiment, the feedback does not include a grayscale depiction of the image data. Coordinate system transformations corresponding to respective comparisons may be computed. The selecting may be based upon and dynamically responsive to content of imaging being dynamically acquired via the probe.
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公开(公告)号:US10368832B2
公开(公告)日:2019-08-06
申请号:US14900788
申请日:2014-06-18
Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Inventor: Sheng-Wen Huang , Emil George Radulescu , Ramon Quido Erkamp
Abstract: Issuance of ultrasound pulses to a volume and receiving echo data is followed by estimating, based on the received data, center frequency subvolume-by-subvolume. Distinguishing between heart and lung tissue occurs based on a result of the estimating, and may include automatically identifying a spatial boundary (332) between the heart and lung tissue (324, 328), or a user display of center frequencies that allows for visual distinguishing. The issuance can include issuing, ray line by ray line, pair-wise identical, and/or pair-wise mutually inverted, ultrasound pulses. Center frequency calculations may be made for incremental sampling locations of respective imaging depth along each of the A-lines generated from echo data of the rays. The distinguishing might entail averaging center frequencies for locations along an A-line, and applying a central frequency threshold to the average. The leftmost of the qualifying A-lines, i.e., that meet the threshold, may determine the spatial boundary in the current imaging plane.
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公开(公告)号:US20170301094A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-19
申请号:US15102907
申请日:2014-12-08
Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Inventor: Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon , William Hou , Jean-Luc Robert , Emil George Radulescu , Ji Cao
CPC classification number: G06T7/11 , A61B8/483 , A61B8/5253 , A61B8/5269 , G01S7/52047 , G01S15/8915 , G01S15/8995 , G06T5/20 , G06T2207/10132 , G06T2207/20024 , G10K11/346
Abstract: An image compounding apparatus acquires, via ultrasound, pixel-based images (126-130) of a region of interest for, by compounding, forming a composite image of the region. The image includes composite pixels (191) that spatially correspond respectively to pixels of the images. Further included is a pixel processor for beamforming with respect to a pixel from among the pixels, and for assessing, with respect to the composite pixel and from the data acquired (146), amounts of local information content of respective ones of the images. The processor determines, based on the assessment, weights for respective application, in the forming, to the pixels, of the images, that spatially correspond to the composite pixel. In some embodiments, the assessing commences operating on the data no later than upon the beamforming. In some embodiments, brightness values are assigned to the spatially corresponding pixels; and, in spatial correspondence, the maximum and the mean values are determined. They are then utilized in weighting the compounding.
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公开(公告)号:US20150011886A1
公开(公告)日:2015-01-08
申请号:US14364319
申请日:2012-12-10
Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Inventor: Emil George Radulescu , Juergen Weese , Ivan Salgo
CPC classification number: A61B8/0883 , A61B8/12 , A61B8/145 , A61B8/483 , A61B8/488 , A61B8/5215 , A61B8/585
Abstract: Based on anatomy recognition from three-dimensional live imaging of a volume, one or more portions (204, 208) of the volume are selected in real time. In further real time response, live imaging or the portion(s) is performed with a beam density (156) higher than that used in the volume imaging. The one or more portion may be one or more imaging plane selected for optimal orientation in making an anatomical measurement (424) or display. The recognition can be based on an anatomical model, such as a cardiac mesh model. The model may be pre-encoded with information that can be associated with image locations to provide the basis for portion selection, and for placement of indicia (416, 420, 432, 436) displayable for initiating measurement within an image provided by the live portion imaging. A single TEE or TTE imaging probe (112) may be used throughout. On request, periodically or based on detected motion of the probe with respect to the anatomy, the whole process can be re-executed, starting back from volume acquisition (S508).
Abstract translation: 基于体积的三维实况成像的解剖识别,实时选择体积的一个或多个部分(204,208)。 在进一步的实时响应中,使用比体积成像中使用的光束密度(156)更高的光束密度(156)进行实时成像或部分。 一个或多个部分可以是在进行解剖测量(424)或显示时被选择用于最佳取向的一个或多个成像平面。 识别可以基于解剖模型,例如心脏网格模型。 该模型可以用可以与图像位置相关联的信息进行预编码,以提供部分选择的基础,以及用于放置可显示用于在由活体部分提供的图像内启动测量的标记(416,420,432,436) 成像。 可以使用单个TEE或TTE成像探针(112)。 根据请求,定期地或基于探测器相对于解剖结构的检测到的运动,可以从体积获取开始重新执行整个过程(S508)。
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公开(公告)号:US11911218B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-27
申请号:US16088288
申请日:2017-03-28
Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Inventor: Man Nguyen , Jean-Luc Robert , Ramon Quido Erkamp , Sheng-Wen Huang , Bernard Joseph Savord , Emil George Radulescu
CPC classification number: A61B8/4488 , A61B8/145 , A61B8/463 , A61B8/466 , A61B8/54 , G01S7/5208 , G01S15/8925 , G01S15/8927 , G01S7/52095
Abstract: A diagnostic ultrasound system has a 2D array transducer which is operated with 1×N patches, patches which are only a single element wide. The “N” length of the patches extends in the elevation direction of a scanned 2D image plane, with the single element width extending in the lateral (azimuth) direction. Focusing is done along each patch in the elevation direction by a microbeamformer, and focusing in the lateral (azimuth) direction is done by the system beamformer. The minimal width of each patch in the azimuth direction enables the production of images highly resolved in the azimuthal plane of a 2D image, including the reception of highly resolved multilines for high frame rate imaging.
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公开(公告)号:US11366208B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-21
申请号:US15314521
申请日:2015-05-27
Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Inventor: Emil George Radulescu , Sanghamithra Korukonda , Jean-luc Robert
Abstract: In some embodiments, ultrasound receive beamforming yields beamformed samples, based upon which spatially intermediate pixels (232, 242, 244) are dynamically reconstructed. The samples have been correspondingly derived from acquisition through respectively different acoustic windows (218, 220). The reconstructing is further based on temporal weighting of the samples. In some embodiments, the sampling is via synchronized ultrasound phased-array data acquisition from a pair of side-by-side, spaced apart (211) acoustic windows respectively facing opposite sides of a central region (244) to be imaged. In particular, the pair is used interleavingly to dynamically scan jointly in a single lateral direction in imaging the region. The acquisition in the scan is, along a synchronization line (222) extending laterally across the region, monotonically progressive in that direction. Rotational scans respectively from the window pair are synchronizable into a composite scan of a moving object. The synchronization line (222) can be defined by the focuses of the transmits. The progression may strictly increase.
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公开(公告)号:US10746859B2
公开(公告)日:2020-08-18
申请号:US15300143
申请日:2015-03-18
Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Abstract: An apparatus and method of imaging an imaging region (7) employ an acoustic transducer array (10′) to produce image data for the imaging region (7), wherein there are one or more obstructions (15-1, 15-2, 15-3) between the acoustic transducer array (10′) and at least a portion (5) of the imaging region (7). One or more processors exploit redundancy in transmit/receive pair paths among the acoustic transducers in the acoustic transducer array (10′) to compensate for missing image data of the imaging region (7) due to the one or more obstructions (15-1, 15-2, 15-3), and produce an image of the imaging region (7) from the compensated image data.
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公开(公告)号:US10522132B2
公开(公告)日:2019-12-31
申请号:US15572286
申请日:2016-04-27
Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Inventor: Franciscus Johannes Gerardus Hakkens , Debbie Rem-Bronneberg , Wim Crooijmans , Cornelis Petrus Hendriks , Sergei Shulepov , Emil George Radulescu , Denny Mathew
IPC: B06B1/06 , G10K11/35 , A61B8/00 , A61B8/12 , G10K11/32 , G01N29/06 , G01N29/24 , G01N29/26 , G01S15/89 , G01S7/00 , G01S15/00 , A61N7/02
Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasound array comprising a plurality of ultrasound transducer elements (20) on a carrier (10), said carrier further carrying an actuator arrangement (30, 30′) of a material having an adjustable shape in response to an electromagnetic stimulus, e.g. an electro active polymer or optically responsive polymer, wherein the material is arranged to change the orientation of said ultrasound transducer elements in response to said stimulus. This facilitates configurable beam shaping and/or body contour matching with the ultrasound array. An ultrasound system (100) comprising such an ultrasound array is also disclosed.
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