US 11,771,401 B2
System for tracking and imaging a treatment probe
Morgan L. Hill, Boulder, CO (US); Eric W. Larson, Littleton, CO (US); Casey M. Ladtkow, Erie, CO (US); Nikhil P. Mankar, Pune (IN); Arlen J. Reschke, Longmont, CO (US); Jeetendra Bharadwaj, Erie, CO (US); Robert J. Behnke, II, Erie, CO (US); and William J. Dickhans, Longmont, CO (US)
Assigned to Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed by Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/951,194.
Application 16/951,194 is a continuation of application No. 14/930,900, filed on Nov. 3, 2015, granted, now 10,869,650.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/076,132, filed on Nov. 6, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0068784 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 8/4254 (2013.01) [A61B 8/085 (2013.01); A61B 8/0841 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 8/4444 (2013.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2051 (2016.02)] 20 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
an ultrasound imager configured to be inserted into a body of a patient during a medical procedure, the ultrasound imager defining a longitudinal axis and including a top surface and an ultrasound sensor extending along the top surface, the ultrasound sensor positioned along the longitudinal axis and configured to generate real-time ultrasound images orthogonal to the longitudinal axis; and
a sensor mount configured to be releasably mounted over a distal tip of the ultrasound imager distal to the ultrasound sensor along the longitudinal axis, and to receive an Electromagnetic (EM) tracking sensor configured to track a location of the ultrasound imager thereon;
wherein, when the sensor mount is mounted over the distal tip of the ultrasound imager, the EM tracking sensor is positioned between the sensor mount and the distal tip of the ultrasound imager.