539results about "Patient positioning" patented technology

A docking-station useful for providing a neonate predefined, continuous, stabilized and non-interrupted life-support environmental conditions, comprising of: (i) a neonate incubator, having at least one first opening and a life support system, and (ii) an imaging-device, having a scanning chamber with at least one second opening. The docking-station is configured such that said neonate incubator first opening and said scanning chamber second opening are juxtapose-able so as to reversibly hermetically communicate; thereby providing said neonate predefined, continuous, stabilized, non-interrupted life-support environmental conditions during the entire process of scanning.

An apparatus and process for measuring the motion of internal joint structures during and for measuring the function of muscles involved with the motion of a joint of a subject are disclosed. The apparatus can be configured in three forms: a horizontal, vertical, or butterfly motion control device. Each configuration comprises a static member and a moving member, in which the moving member operates to move or be moved by the subject being studied. Also disclosed are processes for using each apparatus to measure of the relative motion of a skeletal structures in a subject, in which the subject is positioned in the apparatus and commanded to move while diagnostic medical images are taken or captured. Additionally, processes for using each apparatus to specifically measure and collect data on the function of the subject's muscles are disclosed.

The present invention includes a system and method for generating images of at least one unhyperpolarized portion of a specimen by indirectly hyperpolarizing the at least one portion by irradiating the unhyperpolarized portion by radiation emitted from the de-excitation of excited nuclei of a hyperpolarized substance. The hyperpolarized substance is located in proximity to the specimen. Typically, the images are generated by an MRI / NMR device.

A head frame is configured for the head of a medical patient (108) and includes support for a probe and a neck support. The frame wraps around said head, and can be used in the supine position. The support may include a probe holder (116) slidable under the head and to contact or engage the neck support. In some embodiments, conformal shaping to the head and / or neck, the frame's rigid construction, the alignment of the optionally separable holder to the neck support (110), and weight of the head all serve to keep the distal tip of the ultrasound probe in place against the temporal region of the head, without need for attaching the frame to the head as by straps, providing an arrangement robust against patient / vehicle movement in an emergency medical services setting. Head immobilizing walls may be folded away (316) in some versions, retaining probe alignment. In the holder, an optional circular opening with a spherical cross-section allows the probe(s) to be rotated into position, and X-Y-Z positioning too may be provided, all manually or by motor.

A medical procedure localization aid produces reference marks on both the patient and the medical imaging scan. The aid is defined by an imaging substrate having indicia on one side that is opaque to medical imaging and a second substrate having indicia that appears on the patient's surface for the procedure. Anchor points align the second substrate to the same position as the first substrate on the patient. By visualizing the location of a target on the scan image relative to the indicia on the scan image and comparing that with indicia on the patient, a medical processional may reliably locate where a medical procedure should be performed.

A patient exam bed useful for sonograms including echocardiography exams has a mattress provided with one or more pop-up wedges as well as one or more access bays formed through a side edge of the mattress. The access bays provide reach up access to a patient from below a plane of the mattress top, and can be filled-in when not needed by movable or removable in-fill sections. The pop-up wedges act to chock or support a patient to hold steady in a specific angle-of-roll or attitude chosen from various angles of lying down on one's side. The mattress optionally might have one or more folding sections to convert the bed into more like a chair or reclining chair. Additionally, any of the various foregoing options may be enhanced with power equipment to drive the movable components through their movements.

A system for superimposing virtual anatomical landmarks on an image includes a medical positioning system (MPS) for producing location readings with respect to points within a region of interest in accordance with an output of a location sensor disposed in a medical device. A coordinate system of the MPS is registered with an image coordinate system. A control unit receives a signal from a user to record a location reading when the medical device is at a desired point in the region of interest where the user desires to place a virtual landmark, modifies the recorded location reading for motion compensation, transforms the motion-compensated location reading from the MPS coordinate system to the image coordinate system to produce a target location, and then superimposes a representation of the virtual landmark on the image at the target location.

Echocardiography table with an access cushion hinged within an access recess and a patient support cushion that swings out about a pivot from a swung in position within a patient support recess and a swung out position clear of the patient support recess. Retainers such as locking elements keep the patient support cushion in either the swung in or swung out position, as applicable. The patient support recess may have opposite walls that diverge and complement the tapering sides of the patient support cushion. The access cushion may be hinged to either rotate upright or swing to a hanging position.

The invention discloses a novel double-mode mammary gland three-dimensional imaging device and method. The device comprises a main machine body, a rack, a scanning platform, a measuring arm, an ultrasonic imaging unit, an infrared imaging unit, a control module, an infrared imaging device which is mounted in the measuring arm and a probe scanning mechanism which is mounted in the scanning platform, an ultrasonic probe and an infrared light emitting device are disposed on the probe scanning mechanism, and the scanning mechanism is opposite to the infrared imaging device. By means of the double-mode mammary gland three-dimensional imaging device and method, collection of ultrasonic image signals and infrared image signals can be performed simultaneously during one-time scanning, the ultrasonic images are related to the infrared images in space, breast three-dimensional volume ultrasonic images and infrared images can be re-established, overlay analysis of double-mode images can be achieved, check and diagnosis for breast tissue can be facilitated, and noninvasive undamaged and non-radiative effects are achieved.

The invention discloses a clinical antenatal diagnosing and examining device for the obstetric and gynecologic department. The clinical antenatal diagnosing and examining device comprises a bed board, the bed board is composed of three support plates which are connected through rotating shafts, support legs are arranged at four corners of the lower surface of the support plate in the middle, each of the two support legs on the right is provided with a support frame, and first electric telescopic rods are connected between the support frames and the lower surface of the support plate on the right through hinge seats. The clinical antenatal diagnosing and examining device has the advantages that through an arc pathway, a pregnant woman can be examined from multiple angles, and examination is enabled to be more accurate; through an inflated cushion, the pregnant woman is enabled to feel more comfortable; through telescoping of the first electric telescopic rods, angles of an upper body and feet of the pregnant woman can be adjusted, and more convenience is brought to the pregnant women during examination; to sum up, the clinical antenatal diagnosing and examining device is simple in structure, simple to operate, capable of enabling examination to be more accurate by examining the pregnant woman in multiple angles, and capable of adjusting angles of two ends of a ward bed so as to enable the pregnant women to feed more comfortable when lying down.

Provided herein is a breast ultrasound scanning and diagnosis aid system. The scanning aid system is capable of aiding positioning and tracking the scanned breast ultrasound images and suspicious tumor ultrasound images so that the doctor can be easily informed of the scanned positions of the breast ultrasound images and the suspicious tumor ultrasound images. The diagnosis aid system selects at least one representative, breast ultrasound images with tumor characteristics, segments a suspicious tumor region, and acquires a plurality of characteristic parameters in association with tumor tissues from the suspicious tumor region so as to provide a diagnostic suggestion. With the use of the present invention, the positions of suspicious tumors can be acquired from the positioning data of the breast ultrasound images, and tumor diagnosis accuracy can be improved by selecting an ultrasound image with tumor characteristics.

A system for performing an ultrasound scan of cellular tissue includes an ultrasound scanning device having an ultrasound probe, to generate cross-sectional images of the cellular tissue. A probe enclosure houses the ultrasound probe, has a bottom formed by a flexible membrane, is configured to hold an ultrasonic coupling material, and forms a pressurizable cavity adjacent the flexible membrane. An armature supports the probe enclosure and is configured to move the probe enclosure into a position where the flexible membrane is placed adjacent to and displaced by the cellular tissue. A probe positioning assembly supports the ultrasound probe within the probe enclosure and moves the ultrasound probe over the flexible membrane with a head of the ultrasound probe submerged in the ultrasonic coupling material, the ultrasound scanning device generating the cross-sectional images of the cellular tissue as the probe positioning assembly progressively moves the ultrasound probe over the flexible membrane.

The imaging system can comprise a plurality of elongated rails, a scanhead assembly, and a small animal mount assembly. The scanhead assembly is selectively mounted onto a first rail and is constructed and arranged for movement in a linear bi-directional manner along the longitudinal axis of the first rail. The small-animal mount assembly is selectively mounted onto a second rail and is constructed and arranged for movement in a linear bi-directional manner along the longitudinal axis of the second rail. The second rail being mounted relative to the first rail such that the longitudinal axis of the second rail is at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the first rail. The imaging system can also comprise a needle injection assembly that is selectively mounted onto the third rail and is constructed and arranged for movement in a linear bi-directional manner along the longitudinal axis of the third rail. The third rail being mounted relative to the second rail and the first rail such that the longitudinal axis of the third rail is substantially coaxial to the longitudinal axis of the first rail. Alternatively, the needle injection assembly is mounted onto the first rail, such that the second rail is positioned therebetween the needle injection assembly and the scanhead assembly.

An apparatus and process for measuring the motion of internal joint structures during and for measuring the function of muscles involved with the motion of a joint of a subject are disclosed. The apparatus can be configured in three forms: a horizontal, vertical, or butterfly motion control device. Each configuration comprises a static member and a moving member, in which the moving member operates to move or be moved by the subject being studied. Also disclosed are processes for using each apparatus to measure of the relative motion of a skeletal structures in a subject, in which the subject is positioned in the apparatus and commanded to move while diagnostic medical images are taken or captured. Additionally, processes for using each apparatus to specifically measure and collect data on the function of the subject's muscles are disclosed.

A helmet-type low-intensity focused ultrasound stimulation device includes: a first guide part formed in an arc shape and provided in a longitudinal direction; a second guide part which is formed in an arc shape and is connected in a transverse direction so as to be orthogonal to the first guide part; an ultrasound module which is connected to the second guide part and includes a transducer for generating ultrasound waves moving towards an inner direction; and a support part which is worn on a head of a user, and to which the first guide part is fixed and both end portions of the second guide part are rotationally fixed, in which the second guide part rotates in the longitudinal direction by allowing one point thereof to be guided along the first guide part, and the transducer is movable along the second guide part in a transverse direction.

A seat extension and / or a back support are provided for an examination table which allows a examiner to be seated fully on the examination table and in one embodiment to lean across the patient without the examiner having to contact the patient.

The imaging system can comprise a plurality of elongated rails, a scanhead assembly, and a small animal mount assembly. The scanhead assembly is selectively mounted onto a first rail and is constructed and arranged for movement in a linear bi-directional manner along the longitudinal axis of the first rail. The small-animal mount assembly is selectively mounted onto a second rail and is constructed and arranged for movement in a linear bi-directional manner along the longitudinal axis of the second rail. The second rail being mounted relative to the first rail such that the longitudinal axis of the second rail is at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the first rail. The imaging system can also comprise a needle injection assembly that is selectively mounted onto the third rail and is constructed and arranged for movement in a linear bi-directional manner along the longitudinal axis of the third rail. The third rail being mounted relative to the second rail and the first rail such that the longitudinal axis of the third rail is substantially coaxial to the longitudinal axis of the first rail. Alternatively, the needle injection assembly is mounted onto the first rail, such that the second rail is positioned therebetween the needle injection assembly and the scanhead assembly.

An ultrasonic bone densitometer system is provided in a kiosk environment using computer driven patient instructions and simplified sanitizing procedures to allow unsupervised use by members of the public for screening purposes.

The invention relates to a remote medical ultrasonic examination system and method. The system comprises a patient consulting room A and a specialist consulting room B, wherein the patient consultingroom A comprises a network system A, a microphone and loudspeaker box A, an examination bed A, an ultrasonic diagnostic instrument A, an ultrasonic probe A, a mechanical arm A, a coupling agent smearing device A, a pressure detector A, a holographic image pickup system A and a computer and client program A; the specialist consulting room B comprises a network system B, a microphone and loudspeakerbox B, an ultrasonic probe B, a mechanical arm B, a mechanical arm support B, a pressure detector B, a holographic imaging system B and a computer and server end program B. The remote medical ultrasonic examination system has the advantages that an examiner has good visual and tactile experience, medical manpower resources are saved (examination can be performed when both the examiner and an examinee are online), the examination space is unlimited, examination time is saved, ultrasonic images are real-time and dynamic images, and stored data can be used for case discussion and teaching in a virtual environment.

A fully automatic ultrasonic scanner and a scan detection method is provided. The fully automatic ultrasonic scanner comprises: an ultrasonic probe (4); a driving system (5) for driving the ultrasonic probe (4) to move; and a flexible structure on which the ultrasonic probe (4) is mounted, wherein the flexible structure enables the ultrasonic probe (4) to be always along a curve of a skin surface and keep perpendicular to the skin surface during scanning. The flexible structure of the fully automatic ultrasonic scanner has self-adaptive effect, can adjust the scan trace and the probe angle in real time according to different curves of the human body, and ensure that the ultrasonic probe (4) scans against the skin surface and keeps perpendicular to the skin surface, which improves the quality of the scanned images, so as to enhance the detection rate and accuracy rate of early screening, and reduces the probability of missed diagnosis.

The present invention relates to positioning guidance for image acquisition. In order to facilitate positioning of a patient for medical image acquisition, a guiding system (14) is provided. The system comprises a patient detecting device (22) and a patient position prescribing device (24). The patient detecting device is configured to detect an anatomy of interest (36) of a patient for image acquisition and to detect current spatial information of the anatomy of interest. The patient position prescribing device is configured to provide an initial target position (40) for the detected anatomy of interest, wherein the initial target position is provided as a reference for the image acquisition. The patient position prescribing device is further configured to register the initial target position with the current spatial information, and to determine an adapted target position (42) by adapting the initial target position based inter alia on the current spatial information.

A method for treating a medical pathology includes receiving a first set of acoustic radiation scattered by a volume of tissue containing at least a portion of the medical pathology and thereafter, changing a temperature of the volume of tissue. The method also includes thereafter, receiving a second set of acoustic radiation scattered by the volume of tissue and localizing the portion of the medical pathology from the first and second sets of received acoustic radiation. Localizing the portion of the medical pathology comprises identifying the medical pathology from differences in the first and second sets of received acoustic radiation resulting from the change in temperature. The method also includes insonifying the portion of the medical pathology with sufficient energy to damage the portion of the medical pathology.

The invention discloses a combined examination and diagnosis device for the ultrasonic department and belongs to the technical field of medical instruments. The device comprises a bed board, a coupling agent smearing mechanism, an ultrasonic diagnostic machine, a multi-directional moving mechanism, a child body position fixing mechanism and a control cabinet, a head supporting assembly is arrangedon the left side of the bed board, a portal frame is arranged above the bed board, the multidirectional moving mechanism comprises a lead screw sliding table and a longitudinal moving assembly, a mounting plate is arranged below a sliding block of the lead screw sliding table, an ultrasonic probe is arranged at the bottom end of the ultrasonic diagnostic machine, and a probe lifting assembly is arranged at the top of the mounting plate. According to the invention, a coupling agent adhered to a smearing belt can uniformly contact with a to-be-detected part of a patient through the automatic smearing assembly, a flat smearing box can scrape and feed redundant coupling agents into the flat smearing box in the moving process, the upper body and the legs of a child can be fixed by two body position fixing assemblies respectively through the child body position fixing mechanism, and multiple body positions of the child can be fixed.

A computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) apparatus and a CAD method based on the diagnostic intention of a user are provided. The CAD apparatus includes a region of interest (ROI) detector configured to detect an ROI from an image input from a probe, and a probe motion determiner configured to determine a motion of the probe in response to the ROI detector detecting the ROI. The CAD apparatus further includes a diagnostic intention determiner configured to determine a diagnostic intention of a user based on the determined motion of the probe, and a diagnostic intention processor configured to perform a diagnostic procedure based on the determined diagnostic intention of the user.

A compression device for compressing a subject that is used in ultrasonic measurement that receives ultrasonic waves from the subject to acquire biological information of the subject, comprising: two compression plates that are used when compressing the subject, and that face each other in a vertical direction with respect to a horizontal plane; a flexible sheet for setting a subject on, which is stretched between upper ends of the two compression plates; a compression mechanism that relatively changes a distance between the two compression plates to sandwich and compress the subject that is set on the flexible sheet through the flexible sheet; and a supply unit for supplying a matching liquid onto the flexible sheet. The apparatus can match an acoustic impedance with a subject and can suppress leaking or overflowing of a matching liquid.

A scanning guide apparatus includes a projection apparatus for projecting an image of a scanning posture of a target on a bearing apparatus; an image acquisition device for acquiring a real-time imageof a scanning object carried on the bearing device; a processor communicatively connected with the projection apparatus and the image acquisition apparatus, respectively, for judging whether the current scanning posture of the scanned object conforms to the target scanning posture according to the real-time image; Wherein the processor is further configured to issue guidance information if the current scanning posture does not conform to the target scanning posture. By projecting the correct scanning posture on the bearing device for the reference of the scanning object, and can judge whetherthe scanning posture is correct by acquiring the real-time image of the scanning object, issue guidance when the posture is incorrect, reduce the work of a doctor or a technician, enable the doctor or the technician to monitor or operate the medical image equipment in the operation room when the scanning object is in a good posture, and effectively improve the scanning efficiency.

Provided herein are imaging systems such as a system for quantitative tomography and a laser optoacoustic ultrasonic imaging system assembly (LOUISA) for imaging a tissue region, for example, a breast, in a subject. Generally, the system components are a laser that emits instant pulses of laser light in a wavelength cycling mode, fiberoptic bundles or optical arc-shaped fiber bundles configured to deliver laser light, an imaging module with an imaging tank, an optoacoustic array(s) of ultrawide-band ultrasonic transducers and ultrasound array(s) of ultrasonic transducers and a coupling medium and an electronics subsystem. Also provided is a method for imaging quantitative functional parameters and / or molecular parameters and anatomical structures in a volumetric tissue region of interest, such as a breast, in a subject utilizing the system for quantitative tomography.

The invention relates to the technical field of medicine, and in particular relates to a positioning and adjusting device for assisting ultrasonic examination of limbs of a patient. The device includes a bed body, a head support, a leg positioning and adjusting component, a guard plate, a shoulder binding belt, a tightening buckle, a folding lead screw, a folding valve wheel, a waist binding belt,a hip adjusting supporting plate, a hip lifting rod, a pressure pump, a PLC, a lifting hydraulic column, a tilt adjusting bearing, a tilt angle gear, a displacement slide rail and a base; and the head end of the bed body is provided with the head support, and the tail end of the bed body is provided with the leg positioning and adjusting component. According to the device, through the cooperationof the head support, the leg positioning and adjusting component, the guard plate, the tightening buckle, the folding lead screw, the hip adjusting supporting plate, the tilt adjusting bearing, the tilt angle gear and the displacement slide rail, when a medical worker examines the patient, the device is flexibly moved to the part that the patient needs to examine, the device is convenient to adjust and move to the examination position, so that the labor intensity is reduced, the time and effort are saved, the positioning and adjusting effect during the examination is improved, and the workingefficiency is enhanced.