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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2017
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Sanghamithra Korukonda, Seattle, WA (US);
Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon, Andover, MA (US);
Ameet Kumar Jain, Boston, MA (US);
Emil George Radulescu, Ossining, NY (US);
Jean-Luc Robert, Cambridge, MA (US);
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An acoustically registerable probe includes a transducer () to generate acoustic pulses, and a beamformer () coupled to the transducer to adjust a field of view of the acoustic pulses. The transducer is configured to iteratively send and receive acoustic energy with a decremented field of view angles to identify a position of the transducer () to other transducers and to reveal positions of the other transducers to the transducer through a medium carrying the acoustic pulses to register the transducer to the other transducers coupled to the medium.