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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
May. 16, 2023
Canon U.s.a., Inc., Melville, NY (US);
Fumitaro Masaki, Brookline, MA (US);
Brian Ninni, Woburn, MA (US);
Takahisa Kato, Brookline, MA (US);
Canon U.S.A., Inc., Melville, NY (US);
Abstract
Some devices, systems, and methods obtain a fluoroscopic image and corresponding C-arm positional information of the fluoroscopic image, wherein the fluoroscopic image depicts a distal end of a bendable medical device, and wherein the C-arm positional information indicates a rotation angle of a C-arm of a C-arm scanner; obtain an orientation of the distal end in an image plane of the fluoroscopic image, wherein the image plane is defined in a detector reference frame; obtain an instructed direction; determine, in the image plane, a movement direction of the distal end that corresponds to the instructed direction; map the movement direction from the image plane to a distal-end reference frame of the distal end, wherein the mapping is based on an orientation of the distal end in an intermediate reference frame and on the C-arm positional information; and control the distal end to move according to the mapped movement direction.