Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation

John Arthur Pedersen

Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks

Christiaan Varekamp

Pieter Jan Van Der Zaag

Adam Tschida

Pieter J Van Der Zaag

Ben Arcand

An intravascular therapy guidance system includes a processor circuit in communication with an extravascular imaging device. The processor circuit receives, from the extravascular imaging device, an extravascular image stream. The processor circuit determines a therapy region of a blood vessel in the extravascular image stream and outputs a screen display to a display in communication with processor circuit. The screen display includes the extravascular image stream of the blood vessel including movement of an intravascular therapy device within the blood vessel to deliver an intravascular therapy to the therapy region and a graphical representation of the therapy region overlaid on the extravascular image stream. The processor circuit determines, based on the extravascular image stream, whether the intravascular therapy device is aligned relative to the therapy region to deliver the intravascular therapy and modifies the screen display to indicate whether the intravascular therapy device is aligned to deliver the intravascular therapy.

Extraluminal imaging based intraluminal therapy guidance systems, devices, and methods

The present disclosure discussed a device, method and/or system for temporarily closing and/or constricting one or more blood vessels upstream and/or downstream of the vascular intervention site to allow for aspiration of vascular debris resulting from a peripheral vascular surgical procedure so as to effectively remove such debris.

Embolic protection via biologic effect

The invention refers to a system () for affecting a subject and a method for operating the system comprising a medical device like a biopsy gun () set in a first state in which it is not able to affect the subject based on a trigger signal or in a second state in which it is able to affect the subject based on the trigger signal, wherein the state is set based on a provided location of the medical device, i.e., for instance, is set based on the distance of the medical device to a target region. The location of the medical device is provided by a location providing unit () comprising, for instance, an imaging unit like an ultrasound system (). Thus, unintended, possible dangerous injuries of the patient are prevented and the safety of the patient during the interventional procedure is increased.

System for affecting a subject

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EDEN PRAIRIE, MN, United States of America

John Arthur Pedersen