Automated Measurement System
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240099659A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-28

    申请号:US18371629

    申请日:2023-09-22

    IPC分类号: A61B5/00

    CPC分类号: A61B5/6813 A61B2560/06

    摘要: Embodiments described herein are directed to an automatic catheter measurement system for determining a length of a catheter required to extend between an insertion site and a target location, prior to placement of the catheter. The system can include a measurement device that can be aligned with, and map, a three-dimensional arrangement of one or more external landmarks. The measurement device can include magnetic and/or fiber optic systems to map the external landmarks. The system then determines a framework to provide a predicted catheter length required to extend between the insertion site and target location. The measurement device can also be included with the catheter during placement to confirm the actual catheter length and improve the accuracy of future predicted frameworks.

    Ultrasound Training System
    2.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240062678A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-22

    申请号:US17890148

    申请日:2022-08-17

    IPC分类号: G09B23/28

    CPC分类号: G09B23/286 A61B2017/3413

    摘要: Disclosed herein is an ultrasound training system that according to various embodiments includes an ultrasound probe, a vascular access device, and a patient simulation block. Logic of the system tracks the location and orientation of the probe and the vascular access device via magnetic tracking, fiber optic shape sensing, inertia measurement or any combination thereof. The logic depicts the vascular access device in relation to the patient simulation block on a display along with a simulated ultrasound image. The patient simulation block may include artificial anatomical elements and the logic may depict simulated anatomic elements aligned with the artificial anatomical elements. The probe includes a load sensor and the logic depicts an anatomic element having a shape affected by the load. The vascular access device includes magnetic elements defining a magnetic signature and the logic depicts the type and/or size of the vascular access device based on the magnetic signature.

    Steerable Devices for Fiber Enabled Medical Systems

    公开(公告)号:US20230346314A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-02

    申请号:US17731155

    申请日:2022-04-27

    IPC分类号: A61B5/00

    CPC分类号: A61B5/6852 A61B2562/0266

    摘要: Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to steerable devices configured to negotiate tortuous vascular pathways. The system can include a stylet having a shapeable portion formed of a shape-memory, super-elastic material such as Nitinol. The stylet can be placed within a catheter and can include a fiber-optic strain sensor (FOSS) system configured to determine a shape of the stylet. Passing a fluid of a predetermined temperature through a lumen of the catheter can modify temperature of the shapeable portion which in turn can modify a shape and/or flexibility state of the shapeable portion. Modifying the shape of the shapeable portion can modify an angle at which a distal tip of the stylet extends relative to the central longitudinal axis. A user can then rotate and advance the distal tip to negotiate tortuous vascular pathways. Similarly, modifying a flexibility of the shapeable portion can facilitate negotiating tortuous vascular pathways.

    Illuminating Medical Devices and Systems
    5.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230293243A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-21

    申请号:US17696675

    申请日:2022-03-16

    IPC分类号: A61B34/20

    CPC分类号: A61B34/20 A61B2034/2055

    摘要: Disclosed herein are medical systems and devices that include an elongate probe configured for insertion into a patient, where a multi-core optical fiber extends along the elongate probe. The optical fiber can include sensing core fibers that extend distally along the probe. The optical fiber can further include illumining core fibers to facilitate projection of light away from the distal end in various illumination patterns. The system includes a console having processors and logic stored in memory. The logic can facilitate singly projecting the illumination light in the various pattens. The logic can also extract an image from returning light and compare wavelengths between the illuminating light and the returning light to determine a motion of body elements.

    Fiber Optic Medical Systems and Devices with Atraumatic Tip

    公开(公告)号:US20230292997A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-21

    申请号:US17697895

    申请日:2022-03-17

    IPC分类号: A61B1/00 A61B1/07

    摘要: Disclosed herein are medical systems and devices that include an elongate probe configured for insertion into a patient, where the elongate probe includes an atraumatic tip and where the atraumatic tip includes one or more of a loop, a curl, coil, a flexible distal tip section, a steerable distal tip section, a distal tip section configured to transition away from a first shape toward a second shape upon insertion of the elongate probe within the patient. The optical fiber includes sensing core fibers configured to facilitate a determination of a physical state of the elongate probe. The elongate probe is also configured to project illuminating light away from a distal end and receive imaging light at the distal end.

    Malposition Detection System
    7.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230248444A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-10

    申请号:US18132231

    申请日:2023-04-07

    摘要: A system, apparatus and method directed to detecting malposition of a medical device within a vessel of a patient, such as an Azygos vein. The medical device can include a multi-core optical fiber including a plurality of core fibers, where each of the plurality of core fibers includes a plurality of sensors is configured to reflect a light signal based on received incident light, and change a characteristic of the reflected light signal for use in determining a physical state of the multi-core optical fiber. The system can include a console having non-transitory computer-readable medium storing logic that, when executed, causes operations of providing a broadband incident light signal to the multi-core optical fiber, receiving reflected light signals, processing the reflected light signals, and determining whether the medical device has entered the Azygos vein of the patient based on the reflected light signals.

    Reference Plane for Medical Device Placement

    公开(公告)号:US20230126813A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-27

    申请号:US17971873

    申请日:2022-10-24

    IPC分类号: A61B34/20

    摘要: A system and method directed to detecting placement of a medical device within a patient body, the system including a medical device including an optical fiber having core fibers. Each of the one or more core fibers can include a plurality of sensors each configured to reflect a light signal having an altered characteristic due to strain experienced by the optical fiber. The system can further include logic configured to determine a 3D shape of the medical device in accordance with the strain of the optical fiber. The logic can be configured to define a reference plane for the 3D shape and render an image of the 3D shape on a display of the system in accordance with the reference plane.

    Fiber Optic Ultrasound Probe
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230121370A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-20

    申请号:US17965657

    申请日:2022-10-13

    摘要: Disclosed herein is a system that includes an ultrasound imaging probe having a first optical fiber integrated therein and a console optically coupled with the ultrasound imaging probe via a first elongate member. The console includes one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon logic, that when executed by the one or more processors, causes operations that can include providing an incident light signal to the first optical fiber via the first elongate member, receiving reflected light signals of different spectral widths of the incident light from the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber, processing the reflected light signals to determine a first three-dimensional (3D) shape extending along a length including at least portions of the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber, and causing rendering of an image of the first 3D shape on a display of the medical system.