| CPC A61B 8/483 (2013.01) [A61B 8/0891 (2013.01); A61B 8/4488 (2013.01); A61B 8/4494 (2013.01); A61B 8/461 (2013.01); A61B 8/488 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |
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14. A medical system adapted to guide acquisition of ultrasound data, the medical system comprising:
an ultrasound transducer in communication with a processor, wherein the ultrasound transducer is adapted to obtain ultrasound data, said data comprising Doppler ultrasound data, from a plurality of data acquisition planes, wherein the Doppler ultrasound data comprises pulsatility data;
wherein the processor is adapted to:
receive the ultrasound data from the ultrasound transducer;
perform spatial registration on the plurality of data acquisition planes;
identify a number of vessels in each data acquisition plane, said identifying including determining a direction of blood flow within the data acquisition planes based on the Doppler ultrasound data;
identify, by the processor, each vessel of the number of vessels by comparing and matching the obtained pulsatility data to known pulsatility profiles for a plurality of different vessels;
determine, by the processor comparing and matching the obtained pulsatility data to known pulsatility profiles for the plurality of different vessels, a vessel characterization of one or more of the identified number of vessels;
determine a location of a vessel bifurcation based on the spatial registration of the plurality of data acquisition planes, the number of vessels in each data acquisition plane, and the characterization of one or more of the identified number of vessels;
generate a guidance instruction based on the location of the vessel bifurcation, wherein the guidance instruction is adapted to indicate a location to obtain further ultrasound data; and
a user interface configured to provide the generated guidance instruction.
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