Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Positioning support and fetal heart rate registration support for CTG ultrasound transducers
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Application No.: US16094051Application Date: 2017-05-05
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Publication No.: US11432796B2Publication Date: 2022-09-06
- Inventor: Paul Hamelmann , Lars Schmitt , Alexander Franciscus Kolen , Markus Wohlschlager
- 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: EP16169434 20160512
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/060735 WO 20170505
- International Announcement: WO2017/194392 WO 20171116
- Main IPC: A61B8/08
- IPC: A61B8/08 ; A61B8/00

Abstract:
A method for monitoring fetal health. The method of the present disclosure comprises transmitting (100) an ultrasound signal from an at least one transducer element in an array towards a maternal abdomen. An at least one ultrasonic echo signal corresponding to an at least one depth of the maternal abdomen is then received (102) by the at least one transducer element. The at least one Doppler signal is determined after the echo is received by the at least one transducer element is then processed (104) in an at least one channel. A multidimensional map is then generated (106) from the processed Doppler signal. A feedback (114) to reposition the at least one transducer element is then provided when the fetal heart is determined to lie outside an ultrasound beam volume.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190133549A1 POSITIONING SUPPORT AND FETAL HEART RATE REGISTRATION SUPPORT FOR CTG ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS Public/Granted day:2019-05-09
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