Networked ultrasound system and method for imaging a medical procedure using an invasive probe

US11547382B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Teratech Corporation · US

Inventors

• Noah Berger · Waltham, US
• Michael Brodsky · Brookline, US
• Mark LaForest · Austin, US
• Alice M. Chiang · Weston, US
• William M. Wong · Milton, US
• Xingbai He · Andover, US
• Peter Chang · Burlington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 18, 2013
• Grant date: Jan 10, 2023
• Expiry date: Sep 22, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S15/8979
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A hand-held ultrasound system includes integrated electronics within an ergonomic housing. The electronics includes control circuitry, beamforming and circuitry transducer drive circuitry. The electronics communicate with a host computer using an industry standard high speed serial bus. The ultrasonic imaging system is operable on a standard, commercially available, user computing device without specific hardware modifications, and is adapted to interface with an external application without modification to the ultrasonic imaging system to allow a user to gather ultrasonic data on a standard user computing device such as a PC, and employ the data so gathered via an independent external application without requiring a custom system, expensive hardware modifications, or system rebuilds. An integrated interface program allows such ultrasonic data to be invoked by a variety of such external applications having access to the integrated interface program via a standard, predetermined platform such as visual basic or c++.