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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2018
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Man Nguyen, Melrose, MA (US);
Hua Xie, Cambridge, MA (US);
Sheng-Wen Huang, Ossining, NY (US);
Carolina Amador Carrascal, Everett, MA (US);
Vijay Thakur Shamdasani, Kenmore, WA (US);
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/20 (2016.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/52085 (2013.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.02); G01S 7/52036 (2013.01); A61B 8/4263 (2013.01); A61B 2034/2063 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3784 (2016.02);
Abstract
A location device is provided for determining the location of an acoustic sensor. A location process makes use of a plurality of transmit beams (wherein a beam is defined as a transmission from all transducers of an ultrasound array), with a frequency analysis to identify if there is a signal reflected from the acoustic sensor. A location is obtained from the plurality of frequency analyses.