DETECTION OF FOREIGN OBJECT IN PROXIMTY OF SURGICAL END-EFFECTOR
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    发明申请
    DETECTION OF FOREIGN OBJECT IN PROXIMTY OF SURGICAL END-EFFECTOR 审中-公开
    检测外科手术对象的临床对象

    公开(公告)号:US20130293868A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-11-07

    申请号:US13979283

    申请日:2012-01-25

    IPC分类号: G01L1/24

    摘要: An optical detection tool employs a surgical end-effector (30) and an optical fiber (20). In operation, the surgical end-effector (30) is navigated within an anatomical region relative to an object foreign to the anatomical region and the optical fiber (20) generates an encoded optical signal indicative of a strain measurement profile of the optical fiber (20) as the surgical end-effector (30) is navigated within the anatomical region. The optical fiber (20) has a detection segment in a defined spatial relationship with the surgical end-effector (30). The strain measurement profile represents a normal profile in the absence of any measurable contact of the foreign object with the detection segment of the optical fiber (20). Conversely, the strain measurement profile represents an abnormal profile in response to a measurable contact of the foreign object with the detection segment of the optical fiber (20).

    摘要翻译: 光学检测工具采用外科末端执行器(30)和光纤(20)。 在操作中,手术末端执行器(30)相对于解剖区域外部的物体在解剖区域内导航,并且光纤(20)产生指示光纤(20)的应变测量轮廓的编码光信号 ),因为手术末端执行器(30)在解剖区域内导航。 光纤(20)具有与外科末端执行器(30)确定的空间关系的检测段。 在不存在外来物体与光纤(20)的检测段的任何可测量接触的情况下,应变测量轮廓表示正常轮廓。 相反,应变测量轮廓表示响应于异物与光纤(20)的检测段的可测量接触的异常轮廓。

    PROPAGATION-MEDIUM-MODIFICATION-BASED REVERBERATED-SIGNAL ELIMINATION
    2.
    发明申请
    PROPAGATION-MEDIUM-MODIFICATION-BASED REVERBERATED-SIGNAL ELIMINATION 审中-公开
    基于扩散 - 中等改型的反转信号消除

    公开(公告)号:US20120143058A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-06-07

    申请号:US13379747

    申请日:2010-06-30

    IPC分类号: A61B8/14 A61B8/00

    摘要: Acquired echo data is corrected to reduce content from ultrasound that has undergone at least one reflection off the probe surface, for example, to reduce corresponding reverberation artefacts from imaging. In some embodiments, the propagation medium, i.e., layer or adjoining layers, through which the reverberation occurs, is, after a set of echo radiofrequency data (404, 408) has been acquired, modified in preparation for a next application of ultrasound. During that next application, it is the reverberating ultrasound signals (424), according to embodiments of the invention, that are more affected by the modification than are the non-reverberating, i.e., direct signals (420). This difference in effect is due, for example, to greater overall time of flight through the modified medium on account of reverberation in the propagation path.

    摘要翻译: 对获得的回波数据进行校正,以减少从经过探头表面的至少一个反射的超声波的内容,例如,以减少成像中相应的混响伪影。 在一些实施例中,在获得了一组回波射频数据(404,408)之后,经过修改的传播介质,即发生混响的层或相邻层,在为下一次超声波应用做准备时进行了修改。 在下一个应用中,根据本发明的实施例,与非混响即直接信号(420)相比,更多地受到修改的影响的是混响超声信号(424)。 这种差异是由于例如由于传播路径中的混响而导致通过修改的介质的更大的总飞行时间。