Device for interventional acoustic imaging

    公开(公告)号:US11266374B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-08

    申请号:US16066323

    申请日:2016-12-30

    Abstract: An acoustic probe connectable to an imaging system. The acoustic probe has a substrate with first and second principal surfaces, at least one device insertion port comprising an opening passing through the substrate from the first principal surface to the second principal surface, and an array of acoustic transducer elements supported by the substrate and disposed around the at least one device insertion port. The acoustic probe comprising an instrument guide disposed within the device insertion port, the instrument guide being configured to selectively allow the interventional device to move freely within the device insertion port and to selectively lock the interventional device within the device insertion port in response to a user input via a user interface connected to the acoustic probe.

    Feedback for multi-modality auto-registration

    公开(公告)号:US10977787B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-13

    申请号:US15534782

    申请日:2015-11-30

    Abstract: A system for registration feedback includes a segmentation module configured to segment a relevant three-dimensional structure in a first image to be registered and to segment a same relevant structure in a second image to be registered to provide three-dimensional segmentations of the first and second images. A registration module is configured to register the three-dimensional segmentations of the first and second images by applying a registration transformation to one of the three-dimensional segmentations to map one three-dimensional segmentation onto the coordinate space of the other. A display is configured to jointly display the three-dimensional segmentations of the first and second images, each of the three-dimensional segmentations having a different visual characteristic to permit identification of each of the three-dimensional segmentations in a joint display image such that registration between the three-dimensional segmentations in the joint display image provides an immediate indication of registration quality to a user.

    Guiding tracked shape reconstruction for interventional procedures

    公开(公告)号:US10953242B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-23

    申请号:US15533462

    申请日:2015-11-17

    Abstract: An intervention system employs an interventional device (10), and a sensor wire (20) manually translatable within a lumen (11). The intervention system further employs a reconstruction controller (44) for reconstructing a shape of the interventional tool (10) responsive to a sensing of a manual translation of the sensor wire (20) within the lumen (11) (e.g., a EM sensor being attached to/embedded within a guide wire), and for determining a reconstruction accuracy of a translation velocity of the sensor wire (20) within the lumen (11) to thereby facilitate an accurate reconstruction of the shape of the interventional tool (10). The reconstruction accuracy may be determined by the reconstruction controller (44) as an acceptable translation velocity being less than an acceptable threshold, an unacceptable translation velocity being greater than an unacceptable threshold, and/or a borderline translation velocity being greater than the acceptable threshold and less than the unacceptable threshold. The reconstruction controller (44) generates an acceptability indicator that may be visualizing or audibly communicated via a user interface (48).

    System and method for medical device tracking

    公开(公告)号:US10930007B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-23

    申请号:US15779861

    申请日:2016-12-13

    Inventor: Jochen Kruecker

    Abstract: A system (100) for tracking the position and orientation (i.e., the pose) of a medical imaging device (210) is described. The system determines in real time the pose of an imaging medical device based on a combination of image data and sensor data obtained from an imaging medical device and tracking sensors (210) associated with the device. Pose is determined based on a calculated tracking pose change and a calculated image pose change and a determined reliability of the calculated tracking pose change and the calculated image pose change.

    Dual localization of brachytherapy radioactive seeds

    公开(公告)号:US10413749B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-17

    申请号:US15513608

    申请日:2015-09-25

    Abstract: A brachytherapy seed localization system for localizing radioactive seeds within a diseased tissue, the brachytherapy seed localization system employs a tool tracking machine (50) for generating a tracked seed distribution map (51) of delivered locations of the radioactive seeds within the diseased tissue, and a tissue imaging machine (60) for generating a seed distribution image (61) of projected locations of the radioactive seeds within the diseased tissue including at least one false projected location. The brachytherapy seed localization system further employs a brachytherapy seed localizer (70) for generating a composite seed distribution map (71) of estimated locations of the radioactive seeds within the diseased tissue derived from a combination of the tracked seed distribution map (51) and the seed distribution image (61) excluding any false projected location(s) within the seed distribution image (61).

    Determination apparatus for determining the pose and shape of an introduction element

    公开(公告)号:US10143852B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-04

    申请号:US14412824

    申请日:2013-07-15

    Abstract: The invention relates to a determination apparatus for determining the pose and shape of an introduction element like a catheter within a living being, wherein the introduction element is adapted to be used by a brachytherapy apparatus for introducing a radiation source close to a target object to be treated. A position determination element like guidewire with an electromagnetic tracking element is introduced into the introduction element such that it is arranged at different locations within the introduction element, wherein the positions of the position determination element within the introduction element are determined. The determined positions are then acquired depending on the determined positions for determining the pose and shape of the introduction element within the living being. This can lead to a determination procedure with reduced user interaction, thereby simplifying the determination procedure for the user.

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