US 12,232,907 B2
Intraluminal ultrasound navigation guidance and associated devices, systems, and methods
Pei-Yin Chao, Eindhoven (NL); Nikhil Sreedhar Rajguru, San Diego, CA (US); Robin Lucia, San Diego, CA (US); Anuja Nair, San Diego, CA (US); and Alessandra Di Tullio, Best (NL)
Assigned to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY CORPORATION, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by VOLCANO CORPORATION, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 24, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/662,595.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/750,983, filed on Oct. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0129142 A1, Apr. 30, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/0891 (2013.01) [A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An intravascular imaging system, comprising:
an intravascular imaging catheter; and
a processor circuit configured for communication with the intravascular imaging catheter, wherein the processor circuit is configured to:
output, to a display in communication with the processor circuit, a screen display during live imaging by the intravascular imaging catheter, wherein the screen display comprises:
a live intravascular image obtained by the intravascular imaging catheter;
a stylized diagram of a blood vessel of a patient, wherein the blood vessel comprises a continuous length formed by a plurality of named segments, wherein the plurality of named segments comprises a first named segment and a second named segment, wherein the first named segment in the stylized diagram comprises a first visual appearance; and
a first instruction for a user to perform an action at a time when an event occurs, wherein the action comprises applying a first named segment label, wherein the event comprises the live intravascular image depicting the first named segment;
modify the live intravascular image to be a first plurality of intravascular images as the first plurality of intravascular images is obtained by the intravascular imaging catheter during movement of the intravascular imaging catheter through the first named segment and the second named segment;
receive, during the movement, a first user input applying the first named segment label to a first intravascular image of the first plurality of intravascular images, wherein the first user input is received when the first intravascular image is displayed as the live intravascular image and the intravascular imaging catheter is positioned within the first named segment during the movement;
modify, in response to the first user input, the first named segment in the stylized diagram to have a different, second visual appearance such that the modification from the first visual appearance to the second visual appearance indicates that the intravascular imaging catheter is positioned within the first named segment during the movement.