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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2011
F. William Mauldin, Jr., Charlottesville, VA (US);
Francesco Viola, Charlottesville, VA (US);
William F. Walker, Charlottesville, VA (US);
F. William Mauldin, Jr., Charlottesville, VA (US);
Francesco Viola, Charlottesville, VA (US);
William F. Walker, Charlottesville, VA (US);
University of Virginia Patent Foundation, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Abstract
A hand-held apparatus can be used to assist in guiding a probe or locating a particular anatomical target in a subject. The apparatus can include an ultrasonic transducer located on or within a housing and configured to generate ultrasonic energy directed into tissue of a subject and configured to receive a portion of the ultrasonic energy reflected by a target located within the tissue. In an example, the apparatus can include a motion tracking circuit configured to provide information indicative of a motion of the hand-held apparatus to the processor circuit, and a display configured to present information about a location of the target with respect to a portion of the hand-held apparatus, the information about the location determined by the processor circuit using the obtained information indicative of the ultrasonic energy reflected by the target and the information indicative of the motion of the hand-held apparatus.