Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Location determination apparatus
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Application No.: US13885016Application Date: 2011-10-18
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Publication No.: US10405828B2Publication Date: 2019-09-10
- Inventor: Szabolcs Deladi , Erik Godefridus Antonius Harks , Ameet Kumar Jain , Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon , Maikel Hendriks , Garardus Henricus Maria Gijsbers
- Applicant: Szabolcs Deladi , Erik Godefridus Antonius Harks , Ameet Kumar Jain , Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon , Maikel Hendriks , Garardus Henricus Maria Gijsbers
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- International Application: PCT/IB2011/054617 WO 20111018
- International Announcement: WO2012/066437 WO 20120524
- Main IPC: A61B5/00
- IPC: A61B5/00 ; A61B8/00 ; A61B8/08 ; A61B8/12 ; B06B1/06 ; A61B34/20 ; A61B18/14 ; A61B18/00 ; G01S15/46 ; A61B90/00

Abstract:
The invention relates to location determination apparatus for determining a location of a first object (2) like a catheter within a second object (3) being, for example, the heart of a person. The first object comprises a first ultrasound unit, and a second ultrasound unit (5) is located outside the second object. A location determination unit determines the location of the first object within the second object based on ultrasound signals transmitted 5 between the first ultrasound unit and the second ultrasound unit. This allows determining the location of the first object within the second object reliably in a way which is an alternative to using a transmission of electrical signals for determining the location and which may lead to an improved accuracy of determining the location.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130245433A1 LOCATION DETERMINATION APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2013-09-19
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