AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC POINT OF CARE ULTRASOUND IMAGING

Abstract: a system for and method of autonomously robotically acquiring an ultrasound image of an organ within a bony obstruction of a patient is presented. the techniques include acquiring an electronic three-dimensional patient-specific representation of the bony obstruction of the patient; obtaining an electronic representation of a target location in or on the organ within the bony obstruction of the patient; determining, automatically, position and orientation of an ultrasound probe to acquire an image of the target location; and directing, autonomously, and by a robot, the ultrasound probe on the patient to acquire the image of the target location based on the position and orientation.

Inventor(s): Axel KRIEGER, Thorsten Roger FLEITER, Lidia AL-ZOGBI

CPC Classification: A61B8/4245 ({involving determining the position of the probe, e.g. with respect to an external reference frame or to the patient})

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