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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2024
Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Aj Cheline, Sacramento, CA (US);
Fergus Merritt, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Asher Cohen, Sacramento, CA (US);
Elizabeth Begin, Bellerica, MA (US);
Nathaniel J. Kemp, Concord, MA (US);
Jason Sproul, Watertown, MA (US);
Badr Elmaanaoui, Billerica, MA (US);
PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY CORPORATION, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention generally relates to medical imaging systems that instantly and/or automatically detect borders. Embodiments of the invention provide an imaging system that automatically detects a border at a location within a vessel in response only to navigational input moving the image to that location. In some embodiments, systems and methods of the invention operate such that when a doctor moves an imaging catheter to a new location with in tissue, the system essentially instantly finds, and optionally displays, the border(s), calculates an occlusion, or both.