A training system to teach use of an ultrasound probe, the training system having a chamber defining an orifice, a shaft insertable into the orifice of the chamber, a marker positioned on the shaft at a distal end, a camera positioned to view the marker when inserted inside the chamber, and a processor operatively connected to the camera for processing a position and an orientation of the shaft based on the marker. The system provides a method for visualizing movement of the shaft from inside the chamber.

A system for creating customized learning content for ultrasound simulators using materials from an existing library of curated content including images, volumetric data sets, and metadata, or otherwise acquired, overcoming numerous challenges to ultrasound education and training, including the ability to seamlessly create real-patient based ultrasound training curriculum, the creation of an expansive library that that represents multiple pathologic conditions, and the dissemination of training content to multiple users in an asynchronous manner.

The present disclosure relates to providing interactive virtual training to multiple medical personnel in real-time. A processing unit receives simulation data pertaining to a medical device, and a simulation model of the medical device is hosted on a server. The simulation model is generated from the received simulation data. The simulation model is securely provided on at least one first graphical user interface and at least one second graphical user interface. The at least one first graphical user interface corresponds to a trainer and the at least one second graphical user interface corresponds to a trainee.

A heart model is retained in a container for a catheter simulator. The container includes an accommodating unit for accommodating a liquid, having side walls and a bottom surface, a connection unit attached to one of the side walls and retaining the heart model, and an installation part provided on one of the side walls. The installation part is configured to insert a catheter from an outside of the container into the simulated blood vessel of the heart model. The connection unit includes a holding protrusion protruding inside the accommodating unit, and a communicating hole. A front end of the holding protrusion is open so that the heart model is detachable from and reattachable to the holding protrusion by inserting and extracting a terminal of the heart model.

An imaging phantom according to the present invention includes a main body having an optical characteristic simulating an optical characteristic of biological tissue and a structure (3) installed in the main body, the structure having a fractal structure simulating a tissue structure having a fractal nature present in the biological tissue.

In certain embodiments, the present disclosure provides an anthropomorphic phantom for use with cryoneurolysis training. The anthropomorphic phantom having a body shaped to simulate a human anatomical structure. In some forms, the phantom body comprises a first material configured to simulate human soft tissue, a simulated nerve embedded within the first material, and a simulated fascial plane embedded within the first material superficial to the simulated nerve.

An ultrasound system including an ultrasound machine and an ultrasound probe. The ultrasound probe includes an ultrasound transducer, ultrasound circuitry, a six degree of freedom (6-DOF) sensor, and a probe housing. The probe housing encases the ultrasound transducer and the 6-DOF sensor. By embedding motion-sensing technology directly within the housing of the ultrasound transducer, the position and orientation of the ultrasound probe can be tracked in an automated manner in relation to an indicator mark on the ultrasound screen. This allows assisting technologies to mitigate human error that arises from misalignment of the transducer indicator.

Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a phantom apparatus, such as may be used in MRI imaging. As may be implemented with a particular embodiment, such an apparatus may include a first tissue-mimicking region having a first tissue property, and at least one additional tissue-mimicking region, including a second tissue-mimicking region having a second tissue property that is different than the first tissue property. The second tissue-mimicking region is stacked on the first tissue-mimicking region.

A multi-material three-dimensional printed portion of the heart configured to mimic an anatomical shape and a mechanical behavior of the portion of the heart, comprising: a first layer including a plurality of polygons, each said polygon having a plurality of vertices composed of a first material, each said polygon defining an interior portion filled with a second material different that the first material; and second and third layers sandwiching the first layer, the second and third layers composed of a third material; wherein the first material has a first Young’s modulus of between 1 and 2 Gpa; wherein the second and third materials each have a second Young’s modulus of between 0.5 and 5 Mpa.

A device for a mobile ultrasound unit having an ultrasound probe includes a trained orientation neural network and a result converter. The trained orientation neural network receives a non-canonical image of a body part from the mobile ultrasound unit and generates a transformation transforming between a position and rotation associated with a canonical image and a position and rotation associated with the non-canonical image. The result converter converts the transformation into position and/or rotation instructions of the probe and displays the position and/or rotation instructions to a user to change the position and/or rotation of the probe.