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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Septimiu E. Salcudean, Vancouver, CA;
Graham S. Bell, Niagara-on-the Lake, CA;
Peter D. Lawrence, Vancouver, CA;
Alexei Marko, Vancouver, CA;
Michael Jameson, Vancouver, CA;
Assignee:
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 0/800 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 0/800 ;
Abstract
A system for medical ultrasound in which the ultrasound probe is positioned by a robot arm under the shared control of the ultrasound operator and the computer is proposed. The system comprises a robot arm design suitable for diagnostic ultrasound, a passive or active hand-controller, and a computer system to co-ordinate the motion and forces of the robot and hand-controller as a function of operator input, sensed parameters and ultrasound images.
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