Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Rotation determination in an ultrasound beam
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Application No.: US16061287Application Date: 2016-12-01
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Publication No.: US11357472B2Publication Date: 2022-06-14
- Inventor: Willem-Jan Arend De Wijs , Alexander Franciscus Kolen
- 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
- Priority: EP15200090 20151215
- International Application: PCT/EP2016/079356 WO 20161201
- International Announcement: WO2017/102338 WO 20170622
- Main IPC: A61B8/08
- IPC: A61B8/08 ; A61B8/00 ; A61B8/12 ; A61B34/20 ; A61B8/14 ; A61B17/34 ; A61B8/15 ; A61M25/01

Abstract:
The present invention relates to determining the rotation of an interventional device in an ultrasound field. An interventional device is provided that is suitable for being tracked in an ultrasound beam of a beamforming ultrasound imaging system by correlating transmitted ultrasound signals from the beamforming ultrasound imaging system as detected by ultrasound receivers attached to the interventional device with the beamforming beam sequence of the ultrasound signals. The interventional device includes a longitudinal axis (A-A′), a first linear sensor array (12) comprising a plurality of ultrasound receivers (R1 . . . n) wherein each ultrasound receiver has a length (L) and a width (W), and wherein the array extends along the width (W) direction. Moreover the first linear sensor array (12) is wrapped circumferentially around the interventional device with respect to the axis (A-A′) such that the length (L) of each ultrasound receiver is arranged lengthwise with respect to the axis (A-A′).
Public/Granted literature
- US20180360413A1 ROTATION DETERMINATION IN AN ULTRASOUND BEAM Public/Granted day:2018-12-20
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