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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2014
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Xiaoyu Guo, Baltimore, MD (US);
Emad M. Boctor, Baltimore, MD (US);
Dengrong Jiang, Baltimore, MD (US);
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
An interventional system with real-time ablation thermal dose monitoring includes an interventional tool, an ultrasound transmitter at least one of attached to or integral with the interventional tool, an ultrasound receiver configured to receive ultrasound signals from the ultrasound transmitter after at least one of transmission through or reflection from a region of tissue while under an ablation procedure and to provide detection signals, and a signal processing system configured to communicate with the ultrasound receiver to receive the detection signals and to calculate, based on the detections signals, a thermal dose delivered to the region of tissue in real time during the ablation procedure.