An ultrasound system including: a scanner module including a housing including a first fastener element, an ultrasound transducer, a rotational actuator, and an electronics module; and a positioner module including a second fastener element; operable between a first mode, wherein the first and second fastener elements cooperatively couple the scanner module to the positioner module, and a second mode, wherein the scanner module and positioner modules are separate. An ultrasound system including: a housing including a handle region and a membrane; an ultrasound transducer; a reservoir; a rotational actuator; and an electronics module.

A method of generating a 3-D patient-specific bone model, the method comprising: (a) acquiring a plurality of raw radiofrequency (“RF”) signals from an A-mode ultrasound scan of a patient's bone at a plurality of locations using an ultrasound probe that comprises a transducer array; (b) tracking the acquiring of the plurality of raw RF signals in 3-D space and generating corresponding tracking data; (c) transforming each of the plurality of raw RF signals into an envelope comprising a plurality of peaks by applying an envelope detection algorithm to each of the plurality of raw RF signals, each peak corresponding with a tissue interface echo; (d) identifying a bone echo from the tissue interface echoes of each of the plurality of raw RF signals to comprise a plurality of bone echoes by selecting the last peak having a normalized envelope amplitude above a preset threshold, wherein the envelope amplitude is normalized with respect to a maximum peak existing in the envelope; (e) determining a 2-D bone contour from the plurality of bone echoes corresponding to each location of the ultrasound probe to comprise 2-D bone contours; (f) transforming the 2-D bone contours into an integrated 3-D point cloud using the tracking data; and, (g) deforming a non-patient specific 3-D bone model corresponding to the patient's bone in correspondence with the integrated 3-D point cloud to generate a 3-D patient-specific bone model.

Methods for providing real-time, three-dimensional (3D) augmented reality (AR) feedback guidance to a user of an equipment system to achieve improved diagnostic or treatment outcomes, including comparing sensed, real-time user positioning data and data received from the equipment system during use to reference positioning and procedure outcome data, and generating and providing to a user real-time position-based and outcome-based 3D AR feedback based on comparing the sensed and reference data.

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to a present embodiment includes: a transmitting and receiving circuit configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave to an ultrasonic probe and receive a signal based on the ultrasonic wave received by the ultrasonic probe; a generation circuit configured to generate multiple 2D image data in a chronological order based on the signal; an acquisition circuit configured to acquire three-dimensional multiple position data of the ultrasonic probe; an associating circuit configured to associate the multiple position data with the respective multiple 2D image data; and a correction circuit configured to correct the multiple position data associated by the associating circuit.

There are provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus which can check a scanned region while looking at an ultrasound probe. A scanned region mask generation unit of a diagnostic apparatus main body generates a scanned region mask indicating a scanned region on the basis of a visual field image acquired by a camera of an HMD, a determination result by a scanning determination unit as to whether the ultrasound probe is performing a scan, and a scanning position of the ultrasound probe detected by a scanning position detection unit, and the generated scanned region mask is transmitted from the diagnostic apparatus main body to the HMD and is displayed on an HMD-side monitor.

There are provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus which can accurately observe a target site regardless of a user' skill level even in a case where gas is accumulated in an intestine of a subject.

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe; an image acquisition unit that performs transmission and reception of ultrasound beams using the ultrasound probe, and acquires a plurality of frames of ultrasound images which are continuous in time and in which a lower abdomen of a subject is imaged; a gas specifying unit that specifies a gas region or a gas condition on the basis of the ultrasound image; a gas change measurement unit that measures a change of the gas region or the gas condition specified by the gas specifying unit in a case where the ultrasound probe is pressed against the subject; and an imaging guide unit that provides guidance on ultrasound image capturing on the basis of the change of the gas region or the gas condition measured by the gas change measurement unit.

A support apparatus comprises processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate, based on an irradiation plan with radiation on a target site of a subject, a recommendation degree of disposition of an ultrasonic probe configured to scan the target site at irradiation with the radiation, for each position in the subject. And the processing circuitry is configured to notify an operator of the recommendation degree in association with a position in the subject.

Aspects of the technology described herein relate to techniques for guiding an operator to use an ultrasound device. Thereby, operators with little or no experience operating ultrasound devices may capture medically relevant ultrasound images and/or interpret the contents of the obtained ultrasound images. For example, some of the techniques disclosed herein may be used to identify a particular anatomical view of a subject to image with an ultrasound device, guide an operator of the ultrasound device to capture an ultrasound image of the subject that contains the particular anatomical view, and/or analyze the captured ultrasound image to identify medical information about the subject.

A system for acquiring ultrasound images of internal organs of a human body, comprises a scanner and at least a minimum number of components in, or associated therewith consisting of: i) an ultrasound probe head; ii) the at least one IMU, which comprises a three-axis accelerometer and a three-axis gyroscope; iii) electronic components for wired or wireless communication with remote terminals, and iv) a power source, wherein the 3-axis gyroscopes and 3-axis accelerometers of the IMU are calibrated by the manufacturer for offset, scale-factor, cross-axis sensitivity and initial orientation; and MEMS IMUs are calibrated by the user.

A method of planning a procedure to deploy an interventional instrument comprises receiving a model of an anatomic structure. The anatomic structure includes a plurality of passageways. The method further includes identifying a target structure in the model and receiving information about an operational capability of the interventional instrument within the plurality of passageways. The method further comprises identifying a planned deployment location for positioning a distal tip of the interventional instrument to perform the procedure on the target structure based upon the operational capability of the interventional instrument.