US 12,354,493 B2
Optic ultrasound training simulator
Kelley Stanko, Toledo, OH (US); Yixing Chen, Toledo, OH (US); and Daniel Brainard, Toledo, OH (US)
Assigned to The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH (US)
Filed by The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH (US)
Filed on Apr. 16, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/385,589.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/659,927, filed on Apr. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0325786 A1, Oct. 24, 2019
Int. Cl. G09B 23/28 (2006.01); A61B 8/10 (2006.01); A61F 2/14 (2006.01); B29C 64/106 (2017.01); B29D 11/02 (2006.01); G06T 7/60 (2017.01)
CPC G09B 23/286 (2013.01) [A61B 8/10 (2013.01); B29C 64/106 (2017.08); B29D 11/02 (2013.01); G06T 7/60 (2013.01); A61F 2/14 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ocular ultrasound model comprising:
a globe having an anterior section and a posterior section;
a first inner wall and a second inner wall extending from the globe at the posterior section;
a first side wall extending at a first angle from a line tangent to a middle point on a first hemisphere of the globe;
a second side wall extending at a second angle from a line tangent to a middle point on a second hemisphere of the globe;
a bottom wall extending between the two side walls, wherein the first and second inner walls extend from the globe to the bottom wall;
a first ultrasoundable chamber between the first inner wall and the first side wall;
a second ultrasoundable chamber between the second inner wall and the second side wall; and
an optic nerve chamber between the first inner wall and the second inner wall;
wherein the first ultrasoundable chamber and the second ultrasoundable chamber are filled with a gelatinous substance.