US 11,839,354 B2
System, apparatus, and method for image-guided laryngoscopy
Parto Sabetrasekh, Washington, DC (US); Parisa Sabetrasekh, Washington, DC (US); Sam Maghami, Washington, DC (US); Reza Monfaredi, Washington, DC (US); and Kevin Cleary, Washington, DC (US)
Assigned to CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Washington, DC (US)
Appl. No. 16/618,658
Filed by CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Washington, DC (US); Parto Sabetrasekh, Washington, DC (US); Parisa Sabetrasekh, Washington, DC (US); Sam Maghami, Washington, DC (US); Reza Monfaredi, Washington, DC (US); and Kevin Cleary, Washington, DC (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 5, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/036071
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 2, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/226704, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 13, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/515,354, filed on Jun. 5, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0178786 A1, Jun. 11, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/05 (2006.01); A61B 1/267 (2006.01); A61M 16/04 (2006.01); A61M 25/01 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 1/00052 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/00073 (2013.01); A61B 1/00108 (2013.01); A61B 1/05 (2013.01); A61B 1/267 (2013.01); A61M 16/0488 (2013.01); A61B 1/00016 (2013.01); A61M 25/0113 (2013.01); A61M 2205/502 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image-guided laryngoscope, comprising:
a housing having a translational assembly including a motor, the housing configured to hold a display coupled to a proximal end thereof;
a primary blade coupled to a distal end of the housing and having a channel;
a camera assembly having a camera;
an endotracheal tube configured to translate within the channel of the primary blade; and
processing circuitry configured to receive images from the camera and to control the translational assembly to translate the endotracheal tube within the channel of the primary blade based on processing the received images,
wherein the endotracheal tube is coupled to an endotracheal tube carriage, the endotracheal tube carriage being coupled to the translational assembly,
wherein the camera is disposed at a distal end of a camera tube and is removably provided within a distal end of the endotracheal tube, the endotracheal tube surrounding the camera tube, and
wherein the camera is configured to translate in tandem with translation of the endotracheal tube surrounding the camera tube due to the translational assembly, the camera being in electrical communication with the processing circuitry, the processing circuitry being configured to transmit image information acquired by the camera to the display.