Automated image-guided tissue resection and treatment

Abstract

A system to treat a patient comprises a user interface that allows a physician to view an image of tissue to be treated in order to develop a treatment plan to resect tissue with a predefined removal profile. The image may comprise a plurality of images, and the planned treatment is shown on the images. The treatment probe may comprise an anchor, and the image shown on the screen may have a reference image marker shown on the screen corresponding to the anchor. The planned tissue removal profile can be displayed and scaled to the image of the target tissue of an organ such as the prostate, and the physician can adjust the treatment profile based on the scaled images to provide a treatment profile in three dimensions. The images shown on the display may comprise segmented images of the patient with treatment plan overlaid on the images.

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[0001] cross reference [0002] This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 61 / 604,932 [Attorney Docket No. 41502-705.101], filed February 29, 2012, and entitled "AUTOMATED IMAGE-GUIDED INTRA-ORGAN RESECTION AND TREATMENT," which The entire disclosure of the application is incorporated herein by reference. [0003] The subject matter of this PCT application is related to, and is incorporated by reference into, the entire disclosure of the following commonly owned U.S. patent and pending application: Published as US 20090227998, filed March 6, 2009, entitled "TISSUE ABLATION AND CAUTERY WITH OPTICAL ENERGY CARRIED IN FLUID STREAM" 12 / 399,585 [Attorney Docket No. 41502-704.201]; Application Serial No. entitled "MULTI FLUID TISSUE RESECTION METHODS AND DEVICES," filed February 4, 2010, published as US 20110184391 12 / 700,568 [Attorney Docket No. 41502-703.501]; and 7,882,841 [Attorney Docket No. 41502-703.201], entitled "MINIMALLY INVASIVE ME...

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Problems solved by technology

At least some existing methods and devices for imaging tissue during surgery can be somewhat inconvenient to use and can cause delays in patient processing

[0008] Existing methods and devices for treating organs such as the prostate may provide user interfaces that are somewhat inconvenient for the user and may provide less than ideal surgical planning

Additionally, at least some existing methods and devices for manipulating tissues such as prostate tissue may be less than ideal

Existing methods and devices may provide a suboptimal user experience in at least some cases

Additionally, at least some existing interfaces may provide a less than ideal coupling of the processing device to the tissue structure

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