Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Portable ultrasound based nerve imaging system
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Application No.: US16277902Application Date: 2019-02-15
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Publication No.: US11666304B2Publication Date: 2023-06-06
- Inventor: Tarik Yardibi , Richard Patrick Courtis , Emir Osmanagic , Leonard Bryant Guffey , Christopher Robert Wagner , Joshua John Gibson , Alireza Mashal
- Applicant: Medos International Sarl
- Applicant Address: CH Le Locle
- Assignee: MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARL
- Current Assignee: MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARL
- Current Assignee Address: CH Le Locle
- Agency: Barnes & Thornburg, LLP
- Main IPC: A61B8/08
- IPC: A61B8/08 ; A61B34/20 ; G16H50/20 ; A61B8/12 ; A61B8/00 ; G06T7/10 ; G06T7/00 ; A61B34/30 ; A61B90/00

Abstract:
An ultrasound probe for percutaneous insertion into an incision and related methods are disclosed herein, e.g., for imaging neural structures at a surgical site of a patient. An exemplary ultrasound probe can be a portable ultrasound probe configured to be passed percutaneously into an incision and can have an imaging region extending distally from a distal tip of the probe. In one embodiment the ultrasound probe can be a navigated portable ultrasound probe. The ultrasound probe can be connected to a computing station and configured to transmit images to the computing station for processing. In another embodiment, an ultrasound probe can be part of a network of sensors, including at least one external sensor, where the network of sensors is configured to transmit images to the computing station for processing. The computing station can process and display images to visualize and/or highlight neurological structures in an imaged region.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200261051A1 PORTABLE ULTRASOUND BASED NERVE IMAGING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2020-08-20
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