US 12,193,169 B2
Fluoroscopic imaging-compatible and X-ray dose reducing electromagnetic field generator for electromagnetic tracking
Lev Koyrakh, Plymouth, MN (US); Sean Morgan, Golden Valley, MN (US); Andrew Brown, Minneapolis, MN (US); Farhad Jafari, Minneapolis, MN (US); Ivy Lucia Forbes Miel, Minneapolis, MN (US); and Michael R Weisenberger, Maple Grove, MN (US)
Assigned to RadWave Technologies Inc., St. Paul, MN (US)
Filed by RadWave Technologies Inc., Plymouth, MN (US)
Filed on Mar. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/177,215.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/315,860, filed on Mar. 2, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0284395 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. H05K 1/02 (2006.01); G01R 29/26 (2006.01); G01S 13/56 (2006.01); G01S 13/89 (2006.01); G08B 13/14 (2006.01); H01Q 1/38 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H04Q 5/22 (2006.01); H05K 3/46 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 3/4688 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/38 (2013.01); H05K 1/0251 (2013.01); H05K 2201/10098 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
one or more antenna elements laid out on a single or multi-layer printed circuit board (PCB) with current conducting metal traces; and
an enclosure made with a polymer or other non-conductive material, wherein the one or more antennas are configured to reduce visible artifacts for X-rays used in fluoroscopic imaging and CT scans by:
shifting antenna layers relative to one another to improve metal density uniformity;
fabricating each layer with a thin uniform layer of conducting trace and each conducting trace having an increased width to reduce an overall antenna series resistance;
minimizing trace to trace spacing and via sizes to decrease their visibility; and
adding disconnected small conducting material fills in areas where there are no antenna traces to improve conductor surface density uniformity while minimizing any unwanted eddy currents.