Image Guided Steering of a Transducer Array and/or an Instrument

Patent №

US 11,116,480

Granted

2021-09-14

Filed 2017

Owner

ANALOGIC CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15569534

A method includes registering a region of interest in 3-D imaging data with an initial ultrasound image so that the region of interest is in an imaging plane of the initial ultrasound image. The method further includes acquiring a subsequent ultrasound image with a transducer array. The method further includes comparing the initial ultrasound image and the subsequent ultrasound image. The method further includes steering at least one of the transducer array or an instrument based on a result of the comparing so that at least one of the region of interest or the instrument is in the imaging plane.

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Vision0.70
Evolutionary computation0.01
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Ownership

ANALOGIC CORPORATION

assignment · 439570839

Assignors

ZANIN, ERIC FRANCIS, MANTZAVINOS, SPIROS, NAIDU, RAM

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