Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Iris Verel

Cornelis Gerardus Visser

Raja Sekhar Bandaru

Jeire Steinbuch

A system and method for tracking an object () received within a body () using ultrasound wherein shifts in position of an ultrasound probe () tracking the object (either deliberate or accidental) can be corrected for. The method comprises tracking a position of the object through the body using an ultrasound transducer unit, and sensing movement of the ultrasound transducer unit using a physically coupled motion sensor (). From the movement of the ultrasound transducer unit, movement of its field of view () can be determined. Based on a tracked history of positions () of the object through the field of view, and on the tracked movement of the field of view relative to the body, a direction of motion of the object through the body can be derived.

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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands

Iris Verel