- Patent Title: Esophageal electrocardiogram for transesophageal echocardiography
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Application No.: US15501093Application Date: 2015-07-30
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Publication No.: US10716537B2Publication Date: 2020-07-21
- Inventor: Richard E. Gregg
- Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- International Application: PCT/IB2015/055747 WO 20150730
- International Announcement: WO2016/020800 WO 20160211
- Main IPC: A61B8/12
- IPC: A61B8/12 ; A61B5/00 ; A61B8/08 ; A61B8/00 ; A61B5/042

Abstract:
A medical imaging system employs a transesophageal probe (20) including an ultrasound transducer (21) for scanning a patient's heart and atrial electrode(s) (22) for generating atrial electrocardiogram signal(s) predominately indicative of electrical activity of atrium chambers of the patient's heart. The medical imaging system further employs ventricular electrode(s) (23) for generating ventricular electrocardiogram signal(s) predominately indicative of electrical activity of ventricle chambers of the patient's heart. The medical imaging system further employs an electrocardiogram machine (30) for generating an electrocardiogram waveform based on the indicated electrical activities of the patient's heart, and for generating a cardiac gating signal representative of a cyclical cardiac phase period of the electrocardiogram waveform. The medical imaging system further employs an ultrasound machine (40) for reconstructing an ultrasound image of the patient's heart encompassing a time segment or an entirety of the cyclical cardiac phase period.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170215840A1 ESOPHAGEAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAM FOR TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY Public/Granted day:2017-08-03
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