Stable Targeting Assistance for Ultrasound-Based Instrument Guidance

为基于超声的仪器引导提供稳定的瞄准辅助

基本信息

批准号：
9053455
负责人：
Philipp Stolka
金额：
$ 74.93万
依托单位：
CLEAR GUIDE MEDICAL, INC.
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-09-10 至 2017-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Transcutaneous ultrasound imaging is becoming an increasingly widespread tool across a wide range of clinical specialties, partly encouraged or even mandated by federal guidelines. However, the imaging skill and manual dexterity necessary to perform these procedures is not easy to acquire, and pose a significant challenge to efficient and effective procedures for many clinicians. The proposed project aims to improve the ease of use and the effectiveness of interventional ultrasound by providing a novel feedback method that will assist operators to maintain correct probe and needle pose relative to a clinical target. The proposed method is a form of image stabilization, and relies on the development of on- probe optical tracking of probe motion relative to the patient body, as well as subsurface tracking of a clinical target in ultrasound images. By combining these two information sources, an estimate of the optimal probe movement to maintain the target in view can be computed. Feedback to the user can then be delivered through auditory or visual channels, but importantly also through a novel haptic feedback mechanism that will be developed and tested in this project. A successful outcome will substantially increase the availability of such procedures by allowing a wide range of clinicians of all skill levels achieve satisfying results in terms of accuracy and speed. Our work during this Phase II project will be in close collaboration with anesthesiologists who represent a prime user group for our improved feedback system. They and other clinicians will provide design inputs at the beginning and throughout the proposed work. We expect to develop a pre-market prototype and to distribute this system to a wider range of physicians in the course of the project.

描述（由适用提供）：经皮超声成像正在成为广泛的临床专业越来越广泛的工具，部分受到联邦准则的鼓励甚至强制。但是，执行这些程序所需的成像技能和手动灵活性并不容易获取，并且对许多临床医生对高效程序构成了重大挑战。拟议的项目旨在通过提供一种新颖的反馈方法来提高介入超声的易用性和有效性，该方法将帮助操作员保持正确的探针和针相对于临床目标的正确探针和针姿势。所提出的方法是图像稳定的一种形式，依赖于相对于患者体的探针运动的内在光学跟踪以及超声图像中临床目标的地下跟踪。通过组合这两个信息源，可以计算对维护目标的最佳探针运动的估计。然后可以通过听觉或视觉渠道向用户提供反馈，但重要的是，还可以通过在该项目中开发和测试的新型触觉反馈机制。成功的结果将通过允许各种技能水平的广泛临床医生在准确性和速度方面获得令人满意的结果，从而大大提高此类程序的可用性。我们在此阶段II项目中的工作将与代表我们改进的反馈系统的主要用户组的麻醉师密切合作。他们和其他临床医生将在一开始和整个拟议的工作中提供设计意见。我们希望在项目过程中开发前市场原型，并将该系统分配给广泛的医生。