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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2016
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Ehsan Dehghan Marvast, New York, NY (US);
Davide Fontanarosa, Neerpelt, BE;
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/10 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/1037 (2013.01); A61B 8/085 (2013.01); A61N 5/1049 (2013.01); A61N 5/1067 (2013.01); A61B 8/483 (2013.01); A61B 8/5246 (2013.01); A61B 8/5261 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1058 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ultrasound device () is arranged to acquire an ultrasound image () of a thoracic diaphragm. A current location () of a tumor is determined using the ultrasound image () of the thoracic diaphragm and a predetermined relationship () assigning tumor locations to a set of simulation phase ultrasound images of the thoracic diaphragm in different geometries, or using a predetermined relationship () assigning tumor locations to a set of meshes representing the thoracic diaphragm in different geometries. The tumor may, for example, be a lung tumor.