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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
May. 06, 2010
Laurent Pelissier, North Vancouver, CA;
Kris Dickie, Vancouver, CA;
Corina Leung, Vancouver, CA;
BO Zhuang, Richmond, CA;
Laurent Pelissier, North Vancouver, CA;
Kris Dickie, Vancouver, CA;
Corina Leung, Vancouver, CA;
Bo Zhuang, Richmond, CA;
Analogic Canada Corporation, Saint-Laurent, Quebec, unknown;
Abstract
An ultrasound system has an ultrasound transducer equipped with a position marker and a needle equipped with a position marker. The position markers allow the position and orientation of the transducer and needle to be determined. A display depicts an ultrasound image acquired via the transducer and a graphical element representative of a projection of the longitudinal axis of the needle onto a plane of the ultrasound image. The quality of the position and orientation information from the position markers is monitored, and when quality is below a quality threshold the display indicates this fact.