Patent №
US 6,425,865
Granted
2002-07-30
Filed 1999
Owner
BRITISH COLUMBIA, UNIVERSITY OF, THE
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Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09330598
A system for medical ultrasound in which the ultrasound probe is positioned by a robot arm under the shared control of the ultrasound operator and the computer is proposed. The system comprises a robot arm design suitable for diagnostic ultrasound, a passive or active hand-controller, and a computer system to co-ordinate the motion and forces of the robot and hand-controller as a function of operator input, sensed parameters and ultrasound images.
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BRITISH COLUMBIA, UNIVERSITY OF, THE
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UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, THE
assignment · 118150178
Assignors
SALCUDEAN, SEPTIMIU E., BELL, GRAHAM S., LAWRENCE, PETER D., MARKO, ALEXEI, JAMESON, MICHAEL
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