Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation

Image Guided Therapy

Jinhyoung Park

Fergus Merritt

Paul Douglas Corl

Andrew Hancock

An intravascular system includes at least one pressure-sensing instrument sized and shaped for introduction into a vessel of a patient; a processing unit in communication with the pressure-sensing instrument, the processing unit configured to: obtain proximal pressure measurements for at least one cardiac cycle of the patient while the pressure-sensing instrument is positioned proximal of a stenosis of the vessel; obtain distal pressure measurements while the pressure-sensing instrument is positioned distal of the stenosis; select a diagnostic window within a cardiac cycle by identifying a change in sign of a slope associated with the proximal and/or distal pressure measurements, wherein the diagnostic window encompasses only a portion of the cardiac cycle of the patient; calculate a pressure ratio between the distal and proximal obtained during the diagnostic window; and output the calculated pressure ratio to a display device in communication with the processing unit.

Devices, systems, and methods for assessing a vessel

Ultrasound imaging devices, systems, and methods are provided. In one embodiment, a method of reducing ringdown artifacts in an ultrasound imaging system includes obtaining a plurality of frames of samples including tissue information and a ringdown component; determining a reference frame based on the plurality of frames to approximate the ringdown component; subtracting the reference frame from a current frame of the plurality of frames to produce a difference frame; selecting between the current frame and the difference frame to obtain a ringdown-reduced frame to represent the tissue information; and forming an ultrasound image from the ringdown-reduced frame. In one embodiment, an ultrasound image processing system including a processing unit configured to compute a difference frame based on a current frame and a reference frame; and select between the current frame and the difference frame to obtain a ringdown-reduced frame to represent the tissue information.

Adaptive ringdown subtraction for coronary and peripheral intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)

Devices systems and methods for assessing a vessel

The invention generally relates systems and methods to for producing an image from a rotational intravascular ultrasound device. A method can include alternately transmitting complementary Golay codes to a plurality of transducers in a intravascular ultrasound device; receiving echoes of the complementary codes from the transducers; performing pulse compression of the echoes that comprises weighting the received echoes and summing an odd number of weighted echoes, wherein a center echo is given a weighted value of 1.0 and weighted sums of its neighbors constitute complementary echoes of a Golay pair; and producing an image from the compressed echoes. A system can include a processor; and a plurality of beam modules coupled to the processor, each module comprising: a receiver for receiving a trigger signal from the processor; a complex programmable logic device programmed with a Golay code; a high voltage switching transmitter; and an ultrasound transducer.

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Jinhyoung Park