101 results about "Heart position" patented technology

Methods for evaluating motion of a tissue, such as of a cardiac location, e.g., heart wall, via continuous field tomography are provided. In the subject methods, a continuous field (e.g., an electrical, mechanical, electro-mechanical, or other field) sensing element is stably associated with the tissue location. A property of the applied continuous field is detected with the sensing element to evaluate movement of the tissue location. Also provided are systems, devices and related compositions for practicing the subject methods. The subject methods and devices find use in a variety of different applications, including cardiac resynchronization therapy.

A method of forming a lesion at a predetermined heart location is provided. An energy-delivering electrode is positioned proximal to the predetermined heart location; a return electrode is positioned in contact with cardiac tissue. An electrosurgical current, capable of delivering energy through the energy-delivering electrode to the predetermined heart location at a magnitude and for a duration effective to form a lesion is established. A system for treating atrial fibrillation by forming transmural lesions and a heart-positioning device including a return electrode are also provided. In one embodiment, one of the electrodes includes at least a portion that is selectively movable between a first, retracted position in which the electrode is adapted to be deployed through tissue, and a second, expanded position in which the electrode is adapted to be placed within a chamber of a heart.

Methods for performing minimally invasive heart surgery include accessing a heart of a patient through a first incision on the left thorax of the patient, contacting the heart through the incision with a heart stabilizing device and/or a heart positioning device, introducing at least one coupling device through a second incision on the patient located apart from the first incision, coupling the coupling device with the heart stabilizing device or the heart positioning device, and performing a surgical procedure on the heart. Systems may include a retractor device, a heart stabilizing device, and a coupling device, for enhancing cardiac surgery. Any suitable heart surgery may be performed using methods, devices or systems of the present invention. In one embodiment, a CABG procedure is performed.

A method of monitoring a pregnant woman by identifying a moving organ in the woman and tracking or monitoring a movement of said organ using ultrasound. Optionally, the identifying is non-imaging. Optionally or alternatively, the moving organ is part of a fetus and a position of a head is optionally calculated form a heart position which is directed detected.

The invention discloses an integrally moulded sports underwear with non-steel ring cup, which comprises the following parts: integrally moulded cylinder underwear outer-cloth layer, non-steel ring cup, cylinder underwear inner-cloth layer corresponding to the structure of cylinder underwear outer-cloth layer, underwear bundle and hook coil, wherein the non-steel ring cup is stitched and fixed on the inner surface of front piece of outer-cloth layer symmetrically; the inner-cloth layer is stitched and fixed at inner surface of the front and back pieces of cylinder underwear outer-cloth layer at heart position and lateral specific position of two non-steel ring cups; the underwear bundle is set at the stitching connecting part of the lower end of the cylinder underwear outer-cloth layer and cylinder underwear inner-cloth layer; the hook coil is set on the underwear bundle. The invention is comfortable to wear with good air permeability to realize support action for breast, which is effective to side and elevate the breast to reinforce the wearing and matching property of sports underwear.

The invention discloses a wet sewage sludge combustion furnace which comprises a machine frame, wherein the machine frame is provided with a barrel type furnace body in an inclining manner, and a riding wheel device and a furnace body revolution driving device are arranged between the barrel type furnace body and the machine frame; the machine frame is fixedly provided with a sludge granulation spiral conveyer, and a discharge end of the sludge granulation spiral conveyer stretches into the upper part of the interior of the barrel type furnace body; and the upper end of the sludge granulation spiral conveyer is provided with a steam exhausting device and a granulation discharge hole. The wet sewage sludge combustion furnace provided by the invention can concentrate the sludge in a sludge transport process, the subarid sludge is extruded and granulated through the granulation discharge hole, the sludge grains are driven by the revolving barrel type furnace body to continually roll and dry so as to move to a hearth position, and turn into flammable grains at the heart position, and the combustion of the sludgy is realized. The wet sewage sludge combustion furnace provided by the invention has the advantages that the structure is compact, the sludge concentration drying efficiency is high, an energy source is not wasted, the sludge incineration is thorough, the technical bottle neck of sludge incineration is fully solved, and the wet sewage sludge combustion furnace has great economic and social benefits and popularization and application values.

The invention relates to a heart image processing method in a medical image. The method comprises the steps that the three-dimensional medical image set of a cross-section is input; the template imageset of the cross-section is acquired; the input three-dimensional medical image set is compared with the acquired template image set; a first medical image element, which demonstrates a heart start layer on the cross-section, of the three-dimensional medical image set and a second medical image element, which demonstrates a heart stop layer on the cross-section, of the three-dimensional image setare determined; and according to the relationship among a first template image element which demonstrates the heart start layer, a second template image element which demonstrates the heart stop layer, and a third template image element which demonstrates a heart marker layer in the template image set, a third medical image element which demonstrates the heart marker layer on the cross-section inthe three-dimensional medical image set is determined. According to the method provided by the invention, the heart marker layer can be accurately located, and the heart position can be accurately located.

A blood pressure measuring system includes: a blood pressure monitor which is configured to invasively measure a blood pressure value of a subject; a calibrating section which is configured to calibrate a measurement reference value of the blood pressure value; an imaging section which is configured to acquire an image of the subject; a heart position identifying section which is configured to identify a height position of a heart of the subject based on the image; and a determining section which, based on the identified height position of the heart, is configured to determine whether a calibration of the measurement reference value is necessary or not.

The invention provides a physiological parameter monitoring garment and a method for physiological parameter monitoring by using the physiological parameter monitoring garment. The physiological parameter monitoring garment integrates different functional modules to achieve synchronous real-time monitoring of the human electrocardiogram, heart rate, blood oxygen, blood pressure, position, temperature and the like; through a heart position sensor and an auxiliary position sensor, the measurement error caused by the height difference of blood pressure measurement points is corrected, the methodis simple, and the result is accurate; a temperature control module provides a heat preservation function, reduces or even eliminates interference of a physiological response of the human body to thetemperature with an electrocardiogram waveform and improves the monitoring accuracy. Through the continuous energy supply of a power source and the wearing comfort of the physiological parameter monitoring garment, daily and long-term monitoring can be performed, abnormalities can be found at any time, and the use is convenient. Finally, a main control box and a blood oxygen and blood pressure sensing module can be detachably connected to the physiological parameter monitoring garment, and cleaning is facilitated.

Provided are an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus for determining abnormality of a fetal heart, and an operating method thereof. The ultrasound diagnosis apparatus detects the position of a heart in an ultrasound image of a heart of a fetus and determines abnormality of the heart of the fetus based on the detected position of the heart.

The invention discloses an ultrasonic beam synthesis system and method based on a wearable flexible ultrasonic transducer. The system comprises a flexible wearable multi-array-element imaging transducer, wherein the flexible wearable multi-array-element imaging transducer is arranged at a body surface chest wall position corresponding to a heart of a patient when in use; the flexible wearable multi-array-element imaging transducer receives signals sent by an ultrasonic transmitter of an ultrasonic system; each array element of the flexible wearable multi-array-element imaging transducer carries out time delay compensation on the received signals and then transmits the signals to a heart position of the patient; each array element of the flexible wearable multi-array-element imaging transducer receives feedback signals, and each array element carries out time delay conversion on the feedback signals and then sends the feedback signals to an ultrasonic receiver of the ultrasonic system;and the ultrasonic system performs beam synthesis on signals of each array element to obtain a three-dimensional ultrasonic image of the heart of the patient.

The invention discloses a non-contact multi-lead electrocardiogram monitoring system based on array capacitor electrodes. The system comprises a plurality of capacitor electrodes. The plurality of capacitor electrodes are arranged on a seat backrest. Center of two adjacent capacitor electrodes are connected, so lines of centers of the plurality of capacitor electrodes form a polygon. A midpoint position of the polygon is corresponding to a heart position of a human body. The seat backrest is connected with a cushion. The cushion is fixedly provided with a reference electrode. The multi-lead electrocardiogram monitoring system is simple in structure, and can be directly used without any preparation in advance.

A method for generation of an image exposure of the heart of an examination subject with an imaging medical examination apparatus in particular a magnetic resonance apparatus, the image exposure requiring preparation includes the steps of: preparation of the heart in a heart position that is relevant for the image acquisition and determination of the associated heart position, determination of at least one current heart position in the further course of the heart cycle, comparison of the determined current heart position with the heart position relevant for the image acquisition, and given correlation of the current heart position and the heart position relevant for the image acquisition, starting the image acquisition through a control device of the imaging medical examination apparatus.

The invention discloses a heart multi-plane reconstruction method. The method includes the following steps of firstly, inputting a three-dimensional image of the heart, and initially positioning the area where the heart is located; secondly, conducting detection to determine the key feature points, in the direction of a long axis, of the heart through a heart position detector according to the area where the heart is located, and obtaining the long axis of a traditional heart viewing angle according to the key feature points; thirdly, continuing detection to determine key feature points, in the direction of a first short axis, of the heart, and obtaining the first short axis of the traditional heart viewing angle according to the key feature points; fourthly, enabling the direction of the long axis and the direction of the first short axis to be orthogonal so as to obtain the direction of a second short axis; fifthly, converting the three-dimensional image of the heart into an image based on the long axis, the first short axis and the second short axis of the traditional heart viewing angle. According to the heart multi-plane reconstruction method, automatic heart multi-plane reconstruction is achieved by detecting the positions of the key feature points of the heart and determining the directions of the long axis and the short axes of the heart, the calculation amount is greatly reduced, and reconstruction time is greatly shortened.

The invention discloses a low-heart position underwear heart position supporting frame, and belongs to cup supporting components of underwear such as bra, tights and the like. The supporting frame is characterized in that: a supporting frame body is a U-shaped supporting frame; a blank structure of the supporting frame body is a wide flat wire; both wire planes of two vertical parts of the supporting frame body correspondingly form torsion angles with a vertical axis; a starting position of torsion is zero boundary points of a U-shaped arc and the vertical parts; an arc part for forming the Ushape is a plane, and the vertical parts form the torsion angles with the arch part plane to form the U-shaped supporting frame; and an included angle between a torsion wire plane and the horizontal plane is 0 to 85 degrees. The supporting frame has a simple structure; when the supporting frame is embedded into a low-heart position bra or a heart position of the bra, the carrying function of breasts can be realized well; and the height of the heart position can be adjusted along with the style design, three-dimensional shape of a cleavage part can be shown, and comfort for wearing can also beguaranteed.

The invention provides a pair of multi-physiological-parameter monitoring intelligent bras integrated with a textile sensor and a manufacturing method of the multi-physiological-parameter monitoring intelligent bras. The bras comprise bra bodies, a micro data processing device, textile structure flexible electrocardio-electrodes, a textile structure flexible breathing electrode and a textile structure temperature sensor which are connected, wherein the micro data processing device is separately connected with the textile structure flexible electrocardio-electrodes, the textile structure flexible breathing electrode and the textile structure temperature sensor; the micro data processing device is detachably mounted on a heart position of the bra bodies; the textile structure flexible electrocardio-electrodes are arranged on cotton cloth at the inner side of cups of the bra bodies; the textile structure flexible breathing electrode is arranged on a rubber band of lower parts of the bra bodies; and the textile structure temperature sensor is arranged on shaped gauze of the inner layer of the heart of the bra bodies, and is in direct contact with wearer skin. According to the bras provided by the invention, conductive yarns are directly woven or ambroidered into fabric, does not need conductive treatment, so that the bras have the advantages of no coatings, softness, skin friendliness and the like.

The invention discloses multi-point scanning positioning system and method for a heart magnetic graph instrument. The system comprises an adjustable positioning rod, a reflective infrared detection module, a scanning bitmap substrate and a microprocessor module (MCU), wherein the end of the adjustable positioning rod is provided with a reflective probe, and the movement of a non-magnetic bed in the horizontal direction can be mapped; the reflective infrared detection module contacts the reflective probe of the positioning rod and is used for detecting whether the probe is positioned above the module by using the reflection mechanism; the scanning bitmap substrate is used for arranging fixed infrared emitting/receiving module according to the specific distribution; and the microprocessor module is used for detecting the state of a receiving tube on the infrared emitting/receiving module and identifying and sending a potential signal to heart magnetic processing software. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly regulating the non-magnetic bed and the positioning rod; referencing a heart position according to known reference points; moving the non-magnetic bed by using an infrared emitting/receiving pair tube and a single chip; positioning a plurality of lattices to completely aligning the lattices to position points above the heart to be tested, and collecting signals of the position points through a magnetic sensor so as to acquire a complete heat magnetic signal.

The invention relates to a sleep state detecting method based on an artificial intelligent mattress. The mattress, a micro-motion sensor and a collection processing module are used; the micro-motion sensor is arranged in a position with a distance being 40 to 60 cm from a bed head and is flushed with a heart position; the micro-motion sensor obtains vibration data of a monitored object in the sleep in real time; the vibration data is sent to the collection processing module for self-adaptive segmented processing; then the sleep state parameter of the monitored object is obtained in real time through data processing; the data processing method is divided into three stages, i.e., body motion recognition, breathing and heart rate state recognition, final user sleep state recognition realization. The method has the advantages that the operation flow process is simple; the assistance and the monitoring by professionals are not needed; the normal sleep of people is not influenced; the methodis very suitable for home or large-scale application.

The invention relates to a method and a system for positioning the tail end of a catheter, and the catheter in the puncture catheterization is positioned in the heart position on the basis of the ECG(electrocardiograph) signals. The method for positioning the tail end of the catheter comprises the steps that body surface ECG signals and in vivo ECG signals are collected simultaneously; in the preset time interval, position information of a body surface QRS wave group is obtained according to the body surface ECG signals; the current P wave amplitude value of a complete in vivo P-QRS wave in the vivo ECG signals is positioned and obtained according to the position information of the body surface QRS wave group; the position information of the catheter tail end is obtained according to themapping relation of the ratio of the current P wave amplitude value and a preset P wave amplitude value and the preset position information; the complete in vivo P-QRS wave and the position information of the catheter tail end are displayed. According to the method, the operation is convenient, the display is visual, the practicability and the success rate of the puncture operation are improved greatly, in the use process, other auxiliary personnel is not required, and no harm is caused to the human body.

The invention relates to an intelligent CS (counter strike) game costume system. The intelligent CS game costume system comprises a helmet part, an upper limb part, a body part and a lower limb part. An indicator lamp used for indicating vital signs of a player is arranged on the outer side of the front of the helmet part, a master control chip is arranged on the rear inner side of the helmet part, seven flexible head sensors are arranged on the rear outer side of the helmet part, the left side and the right side are provided with one respectively, two are arranged in the front, two are arranged in the rear, and one is at the top. Six flexible upper limb sensors are distributed uniformly on the arms of the upper limb part, the front side and the rear side of a knee shank and the front side, the outer side and the rear side of thigh of the lower limb are provided with one flexible lower limb sensor respectively. Two flexible lower limb sensors are arranged on the butt of the lower limb part, a heart sensor is arranged at the heart position of the body part, the body part is provided with a flexible body sensor, and a master control chip is connected with the sensors by the wireless network. The intelligent CS game costume system is light and CS game is more real.