Various example embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for the dynamic correction and reduction of thermal variations in skull-induced aberrations during a focused ultrasound therapy procedure. Unlike conventional approaches involving static corrections for skull-induced aberrations, various example embodiments of the present disclosure employ ultrasound detection and a skull thickness estimate from volumetric image data to intermittently and dynamically determine corrections for skull-induced aberrations, such that aberration correction reduction is updated intraoperatively and maintained despite local thermally-induced changes in the speed of sound of the local skull region due to intraoperative intracranial heating. Furthermore, in some example embodiments, a measure dependent on the speed of sound with the skull is intraoperatively determined and compared to a previously determined value of the measure to determine a change in the skull temperature, based on a pre-determined relationship between changes in the measure and changes in skull temperature.

According to various embodiments, there is provided a headset mountable on a head, the headset including a probe for emitting energy into the head. The headset further includes a support structure coupled to the probe. The support structure includes translation actuators for translating the probe along two axes generally parallel to a surface of the head.

Disclosed herein are in vivo non-invasive methods and devices for the measurement of the hemodynamic parameters, such as such as blood pressure, stroke volume, cardiac output, performance of the aortic and mistral heart valves, arterial blood velocity profile, blood viscosity and the blood flow induced arterial wall shear stress, hypertensive/hypotensive and vasodilation/vasocontraction state and aging status of a subject, and the mechanical anelastic in vivo properties of the arterial blood vessels. An exemplary method requires obtaining the peripheral pulse volume waveform (PVW), the peripheral pulse pressure waveform (PPW), and the peripheral pulse velocity waveform (PUW) from the same artery; calculating the time phase shift between the PPW and PVW, and the plot of pulse pressure versus pulse volume; and determining the blood pressures and power law components of the anelastic model from the waveforms PPW and PVW, the cardiac output and heart valves performances from the waveforms PPW and PUW, and the anelastic in vivo properties of the descending, thoracic and abdominal aorta. The disclosed methods and devices can be used to diagnose and treat cardiovascular disease in a subject in need thereof.

The artificial body part control system using ultrasonic imaging includes of an ultrasonic transducer coupled with an ultrasonic image analyzer which may be adapted to transmit a control signal to an artificial body part.

The invention relates to an implantable device (1) for determining a fluid volume flow (2) through a blood vessel (3), comprising: —at least one sensor (4) for recording at least one flow parameter, —a retaining means (5) for retaining a vessel wall port (6) in the region of a vessel wall (7) of the blood vessel (3), wherein the retaining means (5) is formed to retain the at least one sensor (4) in the region of the vessel wall (7).

Systems and methods for closed-loop control of heart failure interventional therapies using closed-loop feedback from vascular implanted cardiac health status sensors are disclosed.

A method for determining a geometry of an ear canal or a portion of an ear of a person may include filling the ear canal and/or the portion of the ear with a liquid or a gel, inserting a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer probe or a piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer probe, acquiring data using the probe, and processing the acquired data to obtain a 2D or 3D image of the ear canal and/or the portion of the ear.

A bladder monitoring system includes a scanning system and a wearable bladder monitoring device (or patch). The scanning system obtains scan data that shows a bladder in a patient and identifies, based on the scan data, a placement location on the patient for the wearable bladder monitoring device. The scanning system indicates the placement location to a user; and identifies customization settings for one or more sensors of the wearable bladder monitoring device to enable the one or more sensors to detect extents of the bladder when the wearable bladder monitoring device is attached at the placement location.

Disclosed herein is an ultrasound probe securement device to secure an ultrasound probe to a patient. The securement device can include a probe coupling mechanism to couple an ultrasound probe to the securement device, a patient coupling mechanism to couple the securement device to a patient, and a constraining mechanism to maintain an acoustic coupling of the ultrasound probe with the patient during an ultrasound procedure without user intervention.

A system for controlling blood pressure includes a wearable interface having an internal contact surface, the wearable interface configured to at least partially encircle a first portion of a first limb of a subject, a sensing module carried by the wearable interface and configured to determine at least a change in blood pressure of the first limb of the subject, and an energy application module carried by the wearable interface and configured to apply energy of two or more types to the first limb of the subject.