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A blood pressure monitoring system, comprising: an exciter configured to produce an acoustic signal, the exciter being provided on a first substrate portion; a detector spaced apart from the exciter, the detector being configured to detect the acoustic signal and to produce an electrical output signal, the detector being provided on a second substrate portion that is mechanically or acoustically decoupled from the first substrate portion, wherein the detector comprises at least four detectors; and a processor configured to determine a blood pressure measurement from the electrical output signal.

Systems and methods are disclosed for evaluating a patient with vascular disease. One method includes receiving one or more vascular models associated with either the patient or with a plurality of individuals; receiving observed perfusion information associated with the patient; and estimating, using one or more computer processors, one or more blood flow characteristics or one or more pathological characteristics of the patient based on the observed perfusion information and the one or more vascular models.

The invention discloses a multifunctional magnetic stimulation treatment system and an application method thereof, relates to the technical field of medical equipment, and solves the defects of unstable curative effect and limited application range caused by individual difference in the existing system. The precision of the laser beam is automatically adjusted through a self-adaptive calibration algorithm, and it is ensured that a treatment area is accurately positioned; optimal stimulation parameters are calculated through a self-adaptive magnetic field depth optimization algorithm, and pertinence and effectiveness of treatment parameters are ensured; the treatment effect is predicted through a feedback mapping algorithm, and the treatment parameters are dynamically adjusted to ensure the safety and effectiveness of the treatment process; physiological data, symptom description and medical history information of a patient are comprehensively analyzed and recognized through the complex disease pattern recognition module, a detailed disease pattern recognition report is output, the application range of the system is expanded, and personalized disease prediction and risk assessment are provided; the applicability and the curative effect of an existing system are greatly improved.

The approach presented here relates to a determination appliance (100) for determining a viscosity of a fluid. The determination appliance (100) has at least one determination device (110) and a provisioning device (115). The determination device (110) is designed to determine the viscosity of the fluid and / or a rotational speed (ω) of a blade wheel (205) for conveying the fluid by using at least one detected volume flow of the fluid and a detected pressure difference of the fluid. The provisioning device (115) is designed to provide or send a viscosity signal (130) representing the viscosity determined by the determination device (110).

An intraluminal ultrasound imaging system includes a processor circuit configured for communication with an intraluminal ultrasound imaging catheter, and is configured to receive an intraluminal ultrasound image obtained by the imaging catheter while the intraluminal ultrasound imaging catheter is positioned within a body lumen of a patient. The processor circuit is further configured to output, to a display in communication with the processor circuit, at least two image type options, receive a user selection of an image type option, select a preset value for at least one image processing parameter based on the image type option, and display the intraluminal ultrasound image according to the image processing parameter.

A computer-implemented method of processing patient image data comprises: receiving a patient-specific vascular model of an individual, wherein the patient-specific vascular model is based at least in part on medical images acquired of the individual; receiving a patient-specific tissue model of a tissue of the individual; observing an actual perfusion value of the tissue; determining at least one vessel pathology that causes the actual perfusion value; and selecting a candidate updated vascular model of the plurality of candidate updated vascular models that results in a minimum difference between the hypothetical perfusion value and the actual perfusion value; updating the patient-specific vascular model to include the at least one vessel pathology of the selected candidate updated vascular model; and outputting an estimate of a location of the at least one vessel pathology or an estimate of a severity of the at least one vessel pathology.

Disclosed is an intraluminal ultrasound imaging system, comprising a processor circuit in communication with an intraluminal ultrasound imaging catheter, and configured to receive an intraluminal ultrasound image from the imaging catheter within a body lumen of a patient, the body lumen comprising a plurality of segments. The processor is configured to identify a segment of the plurality of segments where the imaging catheter was located when the image was obtained, and output to a display a stylized figure of the body lumen including the plurality of segments, and an indicator identifying the segment in the stylized figure where the imaging catheter was located when the image was obtained.

To provide a speed indicator for simplifying acquisition and display of an ultrasonic image in a peripheral blood vessel during a pull-back procedure.SOLUTION: Disclosed is an intraluminal ultrasound imaging system including a processor circuit in communication with an intraluminal ultrasound imaging catheter, and a processor circuit is configured to receive a plurality of intraluminal ultrasound images obtained by the imaging catheter while the imaging catheter is moved through a body lumen of a patient. The processor circuit is further configured to determine a longitudinal translation speed of the intraluminal ultrasound imaging catheter on the basis of the plurality of images and a known time interval between images, and to display a speed indicator based on the longitudinal translation speed.SELECTED DRAWING: None

The invention relates to a device for treating thrombosis of a blood vessel by ultrasound, comprising:-a therapeutic ultrasound transducer (TUT) adapted to generate focused ultrasound waves (OUF) propagating along a transmission axis (AE); -an imaging ultrasound transducer (TUI) for use with the therapeutic transducer; -means (SMDR, FEF) for moving the focal region of the therapeutic ultrasound transducer, for moving the focal region of the therapeutic ultrasound transducer relative to the imaging transducer along the emission axis; a motorized mechanical system (SMM) for translating the transducer at least along a first axis (AD1) parallel to the emission axis and a second axis (AD2) perpendicular to the first axis; -an electronic control system (SEC) for controlling the motorized mechanical system and means for moving the focal region of the treatment transducer.

Ultrasound imaging devices, systems and methods are provided. An intraluminal ultrasound imaging system includes a patient interface module (PIM) that communicates with an intraluminal imaging device, the intraluminal imaging device including an ultrasound imaging component, the PIM including a first reconfigurable logic block, a configuration memory and a processing component, the first reconfigurable logic block including a first plurality of logic elements interconnected by a first reconfigurable interconnect element, the configuration memory being coupled to the first reconfigurable logic block, the processing component being coupled to the configuration memory, the processing component being configured to: detect device properties of the intraluminal imaging device communicating with the PIM; and load at least one of a first configuration or a second configuration into the configuration memory based on the detected device properties to configure one or more first reconfigurable interconnect elements in the first reconfigurable interconnect element so that the first plurality of logic elements are interconnected to communicate with the ultrasound imaging component.

An intraluminal imaging device is provided. In one embodiment, the imaging device includes a flexible elongate member that may be inserted into a body lumen within a patient. The flexible elongate member may define a longitudinal axis. The imaging device also has an imaging assembly that is disposed at a distal portion of the flexible elongate member. The imaging assembly may have a plurality of ultrasound transducer elements disposed around the longitudinal axis. The imaging assembly further includes a first integrated circuit controller in communication with the plurality of ultrasound transducer elements. The first integrated circuit controller may be annularly shaped. In some embodiments, the imaging assembly may include a second integrated circuit controller in communication with the ultrasound transducer elements and the first integrated circuit controller. The second integrated circuit controller may be annularly shaped.

Systems, methods, and devices for using ultrasound for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are provided. Ultrasound signals may be transmitted and / or received by ultrasound transducers in an ultrasound device positioned within the anatomy of a patient. The ultrasound transducers may be arranged in an array such that a first segment of the array is configured to transmit ultrasound pulses and receive ultrasound echoes for diagnostic procedures and a second segment of the array is configured to transmit ultrasound pulses for therapeutic procedures. The received ultrasound echoes may be used to generate two- or three-dimensional images of the anatomy.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are configured to assess the severity of a blockage in a vessel and, in particular, a stenosis in a blood vessel. In some particular embodiments, the devices, systems, and methods of the present disclosure are configured to assess the severity of a stenosis in the coronary arteries by monitoring fluid flow. In some embodiments, the devices, systems, and methods of the present disclosure receive analog sensor data that includes fluid flow data and digitizes the analog sensor data according to a quadrature sampling rate. A weighted accumulator performs a baseband conversion on the digitized sensor data and may perform other signal processing steps. The processed data is then provided for use in any one of a number of diagnostic assessments.

An intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) device includes a flexible, slender member having a proximal portion and a distal portion; a controller connected to the distal portion of the flexible, slender member; an ultrasound transducer disposed at the distal portion of the flexible, slender member and communicating with the controller; a pressure transducer disposed at the distal portion of the flexible, slender member and communicating with the controller; and a plurality of conductors extending from the controller to the proximal portion of the catheter, at least one of the plurality of conductors being configured to carry a signal representing information captured by the ultrasound transducer and information captured by the pressure transducer.

An imaging catheter is provided. In one embodiment, the imaging catheter includes a flexible elongate member that includes a proximal portion formed of a first material embedded with a first braid with a first braid pitch; a distal portion formed of a second material embedded with a second braid with a second braid pitch, wherein the second material is a lower durometer than the first material and wherein the second braid pitch is a higher per inch count than the first braid pitch such that the distal portion is more flexible than the proximal portion; a primary lumen extending between the proximal portion and the distal portion; and a plurality of secondary lumens extending between the proximal portion and the distal portion; and an imaging component coupled to the distal portion of the flexible elongate member.

A method for determining the speed of sound in a fluid in the region of an implanted, vascular support system includes sending an ultrasonic signal using an ultrasonic sensor, reflecting the ultrasonic signal on at least one sound reflector, receiving the reflected ultrasonic signal, and determining the speed of sound in the fluid using the ultrasonic signal. The at least one sound reflector may be visible in the field of vision of the ultrasonic sensor and arranged at a defined distance at least to the ultrasonic sensor or to a further sound reflector.

A histotripsy therapy system configured for the treatment of tissue is provided, which may include any number of features. Provided herein are systems and methods that provide efficacious non-invasive and minimally invasive therapeutic, diagnostic and research procedures. In particular, provided herein are optimized systems and methods that provide targeted, efficacious histotripsy in a variety of different regions and under a variety of different conditions without causing undesired tissue damage to intervening / non-target tissues or structures.

A vasculature assessment device includes an imaging probe configured to acquire raw image data of a blood vessel of a patient and a device module having a console coupled with the imaging probe. Logic stored in memory device module determines blood vessel data from the raw image data and applies a trained machine learning model to the blood vessel data to determine suggested catheter parameters for catheter to be inserted within the blood vessel. A vasculature assessment system includes a plurality of the vasculature assessment devices and a computing system coupled with the vasculature assessment devices. Machine learning logic of the computing system performs a machine learning algorithm on historical catheter placement data sets to define the trained machine learning model.

The invention discloses an intelligent dysphagia classification system and method based on multiple modes of ultrasonic images and electromyographic signals, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining an original ultrasonic image sequence and an original electromyographic signal sequence, and carrying out the time sequence alignment and adaptive noise suppression processing; performing multi-dimensional signal quality scoring and adaptive enhancement processing on the de-noised data; extracting time domain, frequency domain and time-frequency domain features from the enhanced data, and combining the time domain, frequency domain and time-frequency domain features; feature weights are calculated based on feature correlation and quality scores, and multi-layer fusion is carried out; carrying out feature classification by using a hierarchical classifier and evaluating reliability; and comprehensively evaluating the classification performance and optimizing system parameters. Through multi-modal data fusion and a self-adaptive processing mechanism, the accuracy and reliability of dysphagia diagnosis are improved, and the method has good clinical application value.

Systems and methods are provided for improving soft tissue contrast, characterizing tissue, classifying phenotypes, stratifying risk, and performing multi-scale modeling aided by multi-energy or multi-contrast excitation and evaluation, including using single and multi-phase acquisitions, as well as broad and localized spectral imaging to assess atherosclerotic plaque tissue, for example, in vessel walls and perivascular spaces.

The invention relates to a method for determining a flow rate of a fluid flowing through an implanted vascular assist system (1), said method comprising the following steps: a) carrying out a first pulsed Doppler measurement at a first pulse repetition rate by means of an ultrasonic sensor (2) of the assist system (1); b) carrying out a second pulsed Doppler measurement at a second pulse repetition rate by means of the ultrasonic sensor (2) of the assist system (1), wherein the second pulse repetition rate differs from the first pulse repetition rate; c) determining the flow rate using measurement results of the first pulsed Doppler measurement and the second pulsed Doppler measurement.

In hemodynamic determination in medical imaging, the classifier is trained from synthetic data rather than relying on training data from other patients. A computer model (in silico) may be perturbed in many different ways to generate many different examples. The flow is calculated for each resulting example. A bench model (in vitro) may similarly be altered in many different ways. The flow is measured for each resulting example. The machine-learnt classifier uses features from medical scan data for a particular patient to estimate the blood flow based on mapping of features to flow learned from the synthetic data. Perturbations or alterations may account for therapy so that the machine-trained classifier may estimate the results of therapeutically altering a patient-specific input feature. Uncertainty may be handled by training the classifier to predict a distribution of possibilities given uncertain input distribution. Combinations of one or more of uncertainty, use of synthetic training data, and therapy prediction may be provided.

The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and / or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and / or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and / or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and / or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and / or quantified parameters.

The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and / or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and / or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and / or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and / or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and / or quantified parameters.

The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and / or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and / or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and / or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, perform computational fluid dynamics analysis, facilitate assessment of risk of heart disease and coronary artery disease, enhance drug development, determine a CAD risk factor goal, provide atherosclerosis and vascular morphology characterization, and determine indication of myocardial risk, and / or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and / or quantified parameters.

Disclosed herein is an ultrasound system for accessing a vasculature of a patient. The ultrasound system is configured to depict an enhanced ultrasound image of a subcutaneous portion of the patient including an icon surrounding a target vessel depicted on the display. The icon indicates to a clinician the target vessel is within range of a percentage vessel occupancy or vessel purchase length depending on a size of cannula or angle of insertion. The icon can also indicate blood flow strength, vessel type, or vessel deformation. The enhanced image can further include cannula trajectory guidelines and visual alerts for the clinician if the cannula tip can potentially backwall the vessel. Additional icons can indicate obstructions disposed on the cannula trajectory.

The invention relates to a method for determining at least a flow velocity or a fluid volume flow (5) of a fluid flowing through an implanted vascular support system (1), comprising the following steps: a) carrying out a pulsed Doppler measurement by means of an ultrasonic sensor (2) of the support system (1), b) evaluating a measurement result from step a), which has a possible ambiguity, c) providing at least one operating parameter of a flow machine (3) of the support system (1), d) determining at least the flow velocity or the fluid volume flow (5) using the measurement result evaluated in step b), wherein the possible ambiguity of the measurement result is corrected using the operating parameter.

The present invention provides an ultrasonic probe motion mechanism and an ultrasonic probe assembly, which belongs to the field of medical device technology, and can at least partially solve the problems of large size, complex structure and difficult installation of existing ultrasonic probe motion mechanisms. An ultrasonic probe motion mechanism of the present invention includes: a first telescopic assembly, including a first hollow cylindrical structure, the outer wall of the first hollow cylindrical structure has a first thread structure; a second telescopic assembly, including a second hollow cylindrical structure, the outer wall of the second hollow cylindrical structure has a second thread, the inner wall has a third thread, and the second thread is compatible with the first thread; a third telescopic assembly, including a third hollow cylindrical structure, the outer wall of the third hollow cylindrical structure has a fourth thread, and the fourth thread is compatible with the third thread; when the second hollow cylindrical structure rotates, the first hollow cylindrical structure and the third hollow cylindrical structure can be moved in opposite directions to achieve the telescopic movement of the ultrasonic probe.

A vasculature assessment device includes an imaging probe configured to acquire raw image data of a blood vessel of a patient and a device module having a console coupled with the imaging probe. Logic stored in memory device module determines blood vessel data from the raw image data and applies a trained machine learning model to the blood vessel data to determine suggested catheter parameters for catheter to be inserted within the blood vessel. A vasculature assessment system includes a plurality of the vasculature assessment devices and a computing system coupled with the vasculature assessment devices. Machine learning logic of the computing system performs a machine learning algorithm on historical catheter placement data sets to define the trained machine learning model.

An intraluminal device is provided. In on embodiment, an intraluminal device includes a flexible elongate member including a proximal portion and a distal portion; an imaging component coupled to the distal portion of the flexible elongate member; and a plurality of radiopaque markers positioned at the distal portion of the flexible elongate member, wherein the plurality of radiopaque markers are separated from each other, wherein the plurality of radiopaque markers are arranged on the flexible elongate member at two different orientations with respect to the imaging component, and wherein at least a first radiopaque marker of the plurality of radiopaque markers includes an arc-shaped portion and an extended portion extending from the arc-shaped portion.