Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Atl Ultrasound, Inc.

The United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services

James Robertson Jago

Gary Cheng-How Ng

Robert Randall Entrekin

Andrew Lee Robinson

Lars Jonas Olsson

Antoine Collet-Billon

Julia Dmitrieva

Daniel C Schmiesing

Alasdair Dow

Douglas Maxwell

Lisa Kay Pumphrey

Jochen Kruecker

David N Roundhill

Brent Stephen Robinson

Paul Ross Detmer

Thanasis Loupas

Changhong Hu

Jing-Ming Jong

Yangmo Yoo

Martin Anderson

Antoine Collet Billon

Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon

Sheng-Wen Huang

Jeffry E Powers

Vijay Thakur Shamdasani

Michalakis Averkiou

William Tao Shi

Christopher Stephen Hall

Bradford Johns Wood

Vijay Parthasarathy

Douglas Allen Stanton

Jun Seob Shin

Shriram Sethuraman

David Hope Simpson

Cecile Dufour

David W Rust

Gary Allen Schwartz

Keith William Johnson

Roy B Peterson

Joseph L Ungari

Unmin Bae

Xiang-Ning Li

Pascal Roncalez

Robert H Pedersen

Thomas Shu Yin Tang

Timothy Fred Nordgren

Michael A Wood

Sibo Li

Matthew Rielly

Ashraf Saad

Thomas Patrice Jean Arsene Gauthier

Derek Henderson

Kenneth Dickerson

Shannon Renee Fox

Ian Dewar

Xiaowen Hu

Kyong Ik Chang

Gary Lee Andrews

Gary Ng

Ronald W Broad

Samuel Kadoury

David Allen Hull

Alisdair Dow

Lisa Pumphrey

Malcolm Harnois

John Stice

Doug Maxwell

Deborah Imling

Scott Easterbrook

Gregory J Friend

Yiu-Hung David Lam

Paul Detmer

User feedback on acquisition of ultrasound data may be provided to a user. The feedback may indicate a quality of the acquisition and/or the reliability of the measurements calculated from the ultrasound data, for example, the volume flow measurements calculated from Doppler data. Various quality factors such as a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), motion, Doppler angle, vessel size, vessel depth, and/or variance in velocity values may be determined to provide an indication of quality of the acquisition. The quality factors may be provided individually or in combination. In some examples, one or more quantitative values of the quality factors may be provided. In some examples, one or more qualitative indications of the quality of the acquisition may be provided.

Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing acquisition feedback

Systems, devices, and methods for ultrasonic imaging by sparse sampling are provided. In one embodiment, an ultrasound imaging system comprises an array of ultrasound transducer elements, electronic circuitry in communication with the array of ultrasound transducer elements and configured to select a first receive aperture of the array comprising a plurality of contiguous ultrasound transducer elements and at least one non-contiguous ultrasound transducer element, and a beamformer in communication with the electronic circuitry. Each ultrasound transducer element of the first receive aperture is configured to receive reflected ultrasound echoes and generate an electrical signal representative of imaging data. The beamformer is configured to receive the electrical signals generated by the first receive aperture and apply different weight to the electrical signals generated by the contiguous ultrasound transducer elements and the electrical signal generated by the at least one non-contiguous ultrasound transducer element.

Ultrasonic imaging by sparse sampling and associated devices, systems, and methods

An ultrasound imaging system for needle insertion guidance uses a curved array transducer to scan an image field with unsteered beams as a needle is inserted into the image field. Due to differences in the angle of incidence between the radially directed beams and the needle, echoes will return most strongly from only a section of the needle. This section is identified in an image, and the angle of incidence producing the strongest returns is identified. Beams with this optimal angle of incidence are then steered in parallel from the curved array transducer to produce the best needle image. The steep steering angles of some of the steered beams can give rise to side lobe clutter artifacts, which can be identified and removed from the image data using dual apodization processing of the image data.

Ultrasound imaging system providing needle insertion guidance

The present disclosure describes ultrasound imaging systems and methods that may be used to image, for example, breast tissue. An ultrasound imaging system according to one embodiment may include a probe, a sensor attached to the probe and operatively associated with a position tracking system, a processor configured to receive probe position data from the position tracking system. The user interface may be configured to provide instructions for placement of the probe at a plurality of anatomical landmarks of a selected breast of the subject and receive user input to record the spatial location of the probe at each of the plurality of anatomical landmarks. The processor may be configured to determine a scan area based on the spatial location of the probe at each of the plurality of anatomical landmarks and generate a scan pattern for the selected breast. The processor may be further configured to monitor movement of the probe. The user interface may be configured to display, prior to scanning, a visual representation of the scan and automatically update, during scanning, the visual representation of the scan pattern based on movement of the probe.

Ultrasound system and method for breast tissue imaging

The present disclosure describes ultrasound imaging systems and methods that may be used to image breast tissue. An ultrasound imaging system according to one embodiment may include a user interface comprising a display, a processor operatively connected to the user interface, and memory comprising processor-executable instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the user interface to display a first ultrasound image of a breast on the display and receive an indication of a first region of interest (ROI) in the first ultrasound image. The memory may include instructions to further cause the user interface to display a second ultrasound image of the breast on the display and receive an indication of a second region of interest in the second ultrasound image. The processor may be configured to determine locations of the first and second regions of interest based on probe position data associated with the first and second images, respectively and cause the user interface to display a visual indication of a relative distance between the first and second regions of interest if the relative distance is less than or equal to a predetermined amount.

Ultrasound system and method for breast tissue imaging and annotation of breast ultrasound images

An ultrasound system includes a 3D imaging probe and a needle guide which attaches to the probe for guidance of needle insertion into a volumetric region which can be scanned by the 3D imaging probe. The needle guide responds to the insertion of a needle through the guide by identifying a plane for scanning by the probe which is the insertion plane through which the needle will pass during insertion. The orientation of the insertion plane is communicated to the probe to cause the probe to scan the identified plane and produce images of the needle as it travels through the insertion plane.

Ultrasonically guided biopsies in three dimensions

The present invention relates to an ultrasound imaging system comprising an ultrasound probe having a transducer array configured to provide an ultrasound receive signal. The system further comprises a B-mode volume processing unit configured to generate a B-mode volume based on the ultrasound receive signal, and a B-mode image processing unit configured to provide a current B-mode image based on the B-mode volume. The system further comprises a memory configured to store a previously acquired 3D-vessel map. Also, the system comprises a registration unit configured to register the previously acquired 3D-vessel map to the B-mode volume and to select a portion of the 3D-vessel map corresponding to the current B-mode image. Further, the system comprises a display configured to display an ultrasound image based on the current B-mode image and the selected portion of the 3D-vessel map. The present invention further relates to a method for providing such ultrasound image with vessel information and a corresponding computer program.

Ultrasound imaging system and method for image guidance procedure

An ultrasound system and method are described for acquiring standard views of the fetal heart simultaneously with real-time imaging. A matrix array probe is manipulated until a first standard view such as a 4-chamber view is acquired. The first standard view image is matched to its corresponding plane in a fetal heart model. From the matched plane of the heart model, the orientations of the other standard views are known from the geometrical relationships of structures within the heart model. This orientation information is used to control the matrix array probe to automatically scan the planes of all of the standard views simultaneously in real-time.

Automatic positioning of standard planes for real-time fetal heart evaluation

An ultrasound system with a matrix array () probe () operable in the biplane mode is used to assess stenosis of a blood vessel by simultaneously displaying two color Doppler biplane images () of the vessel, one a longitudinal cross-sectional view () and the other a transverse cross-sectional view (). The two image planes intersect along a Doppler beam line () used for PW Doppler. A sample volume graphic (SV) is positioned over the blood vessel at the peak velocity location in one image, then positioned over the blood vessel at the peak velocity location in the other image. As the sample volume location is moved in one image, the plane and/or sample volume location of the other image is adjusted correspondingly. Spectral Doppler data () is then acquired and displayed from the sample volume location.

Automated biplane-PW workflow for ultrasonic stenosis assessment

A system and method for image registration includes tracking () a scanner probe in a position along a skin surface of a patient. Image planes corresponding to the position are acquired (). A three-dimensional volume of a region of interest is reconstructed () from the image planes. A search of an image volume is initialized () to determine candidate images to register the image volume with the three-dimensional volume by employing pose information of the scanner probe during image plane acquisition, and physical constraints of a pose of the scanner probe. The image volume is registered () with the three-dimensional volume.

System and method for automated initialization and registration of navigation system

The present invention relates to an ultrasound imaging system () comprising an ultrasound probe () having a transducer array () configured to provide an ultrasound receive signal. The system further comprises a B-mode volume processing unit () configured to generate a B-mode volume () based on the ultrasound receive signal, and a B-mode image processing unit () configured to provide a current B-mode image () based on the B-mode volume (). The system further comprises a memory () configured to store a previously acquired 3D-vessel map (). Also, the system comprises a registration unit () configured to register the previously acquired 3D-vessel map () to the B-mode volume () and to select a portion () of the 3D-vessel map corresponding to the current B-mode image (). Further, the system comprises a display configured to display an ultrasound image () based on the current B-mode image () and the selected portion () of the 3D-vessel map (). The present invention further relates to a method for providing such ultrasound image with vessel information and a corresponding computer program.

A method for planning ablation treatment using ultrasound data begins by identify pathology to be treated and one or more blood vessels proximate the treatment site in a medical diagnostic image. Ultrasonic Doppler velocity data is acquired from the flow within the vessels and the Doppler data is used to calculate the volume blood flow through the vessels. The thermal effect of the heat transported by this blood flow is considered in the planning of the ablation treatment.

Ultrasonic volume flow measurement for ablation planning

A method for ablation treatment using ultrasound data begins by identifying pathology to be treated and one or more blood vessels proximate the treatment site in a medical diagnostic image. The identified ROI and the blood vessels are automatically indicated in an ultrasound image Ultrasonic Doppler velocity data is acquired from the flow within the vessels and the Doppler data is used to calculate the volume blood flow through the vessels. The thermal effect of the heat transported by this blood flow is considered in the planning or conduct of the ablation treatment, as by modifying the size of a burn zone graphic around the tip of the ablation probe.

Ultrasonic volume flow measurement for ablation therapy

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