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US 12,622,645 B2Granted
Signal-emitting and receiving medical devices which provide data for real-time multi-dimensional anatomic visualization maps
OwnerBruce Reinerinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the process of using signal-emitting and/or receiving objects or smart medical devices for image acquisition, and which can utilize a variety of external energy sources which are directly applied and/or incorporated into the host subject to produce a continuous and dynamic visual representation of the host subject on a computer display, which representation hereafter will be referred to as a visualization map. The derived images can be targeted, to small (i.e., focal) areas of clinical interest, to organ systems, or the entire body. The present invention provides a scalable method for continuous and dynamic imaging over prolonged periods of time, as dictated by the clinical context.
Claims25
A system to create anatomic visualization maps of a body of a patient, comprising:
- a medical device, including:
- at least one of a signal emitter which emits energy in a form of a transmitted signal, or a signal receiver which receives transmitted energy as a received signal, the signal receiver including at least one sensor or an antenna;
- a plurality of sensors and/or detectors which provide real-time anatomic and physiologic data to the signal emitter;
- a passive or active propulsion mechanism;
- and
- an energy source;
- and
- an external signal receiver and/or transmitter which receives the transmitted signal;
- a controller which receives the transmitted signal from the external signal receiver and/or transmitter and converts the transmitted signal into a standardized form of data;
- and
- an external processor which receives the data and records the data in a database;
- wherein the external processor performs computational analysis on the data to produce a 4-D anatomic visualization map of the body showing real-time anatomic and physiologic change that is displayed on a display;
- and
- wherein imagery from the 4-D anatomic visualization map is projected or superimposed directly onto the patient in real-time medical intervention.
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A system to create anatomic visualization maps of a body of a patient comprising:
- a medical device, including:
- at least one of a signal emitter which emits energy in a form of a transmitted signal, or a signal receiver which receives transmitted energy as a received signal, the signal receiver including at least one sensor or an antenna;
- a plurality of sensors and/or detectors;
- a passive or active propulsion mechanism;
- and
- an energy source;
- and
- an external signal receiver and/or transmitter which receives the transmitted signal;
- a controller which receives the transmitted signal from the external signal receiver and/or transmitter and converts the transmitted signal into a standardized form of data;
- and
- an external processor which receives the data and records the data in a database;
- wherein the external processor performs computational analysis on the data to produce a 4-dimensional (4D) anatomic visualization map of the body that is displayed on a display;
- wherein a plurality of medical devices is internally mapped by being positioned in proximity to one another internally in the body of the patient in a predetermined configuration;
- wherein the medical device includes an internal processor and at least one of the internal processor and/or the external processor determines a relative positioning of each medical device in relation to each other by analyzing metrics including at least one of distance, speed, or direction of travel of the transmitted signal, and thereby continuously updating the location of each medical device;
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- wherein the computational analysis of the external processor includes a location of the medical device in 3-dimensional (3D) space which is achieved by one of triangulation or predetermined frequency of the transmitted signal.
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A system to create anatomic visualization maps of a body of a patient, comprising:
- a medical device, including:
- at least one of a signal emitter which emits energy in a form of a transmitted signal, or a signal receiver which receives transmitted energy as a received signal, the signal receiver including at least one sensor or an antenna;
- a plurality of sensors and/or detectors;
- a passive or active propulsion mechanism;
- and
- an energy source;
- and
- an external signal receiver and/or transmitter which receives the transmitted signal;
- a controller which receives the transmitted signal from the external signal receiver and/or transmitter and converts the transmitted signal into a standardized form of data;
- and
- an external processor which receives the data and records the data in a database;
- wherein the external processor performs computational analysis on the data to produce a 4-dimensional (4D) anatomic visualization map of the body that is displayed on a display;
- wherein the signal receiver of the medical device receives signals transmitted from at least one of the signal transmitters of other medical devices or from the external signal receiver and/or transmitter;
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- wherein one of a plurality of the medical devices or the external signal receiver and/or transmitter form a network, the plurality of medical devices forming a mesh network wherein each signal emitter of each medical device communicates only with other signal receivers of other medical devices and only one or more of the plurality of medical devices in the mesh network communicate with the controller.
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A system to create anatomic visualizations maps of a body of a patient, comprising:
- a medical device, including:
- at least one of a signal emitter which emits energy in a form of a transmitted signal, or a signal receiver which receives transmitted energy as a received signal, the signal receiver including at least one sensor or an antenna;
- a plurality of sensors and/or detectors;
- a passive or active propulsion mechanism;
- and
- an energy source;
- and
- an external signal receiver and/or transmitter which receives the transmitted signal;
- a controller which receives the transmitted signal from the external signal receiver and/or transmitter and converts the transmitted signal into a standardized form of data;
- and
- an external processor which receives the data and records the data in a database;
- wherein the external processor performs computational analysis on the data to produce a 4-dimensional (4D) anatomic visualization map of the body that is displayed on a display;
- wherein the medical device includes an internal processor and at least one of the internal processor and/or the external processor determines a relative positioning of each medical device in relation to each other by analyzing metrics including at least one of distance, speed, or direction of travel of the transmitted signal, and thereby continuously updating the location of each medical device;
- wherein at least one of the internal processor or the external processor monitors a level of energy of the energy source, and on condition that the energy source falls to a predetermined threshold, the external processor initiates recharging of the energy source via energy receptors, from external charging sources located at least one of internal or external to the body;
- wherein the energy source is at least one of a battery, biofuel cell, thermoelectricity, piezoelectric generator, photovoltaic cell, or ultrasonic transducer;
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- wherein the external charging sources include at least one of light sources, electromagnetic fields, radiofrequency devices, ultrasound, thermal energy, sound, or vibration.
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A medical device to create anatomic visualizations maps of a body of a patient, comprising:
- a medical device, including:
- at least one of a signal emitter which emits energy in a form of a transmitted signal, or a signal receiver which receives transmitted energy as a received signal, the signal receiver including at least one sensor or an antenna;
- a plurality of sensors and/or detectors;
- a passive or active propulsion mechanism;
- and
- an energy source;
- and
- an external signal receiver and/or transmitter which receives the transmitted signal;
- a controller which receives the transmitted signal from the external signal receiver and/or transmitter and converts the transmitted signal into a standardized form of data;
- and
- an external processor which receives the data and records the data in a database;
- wherein the external processor performs computational analysis on the data to produce a 4-dimensional (4D) anatomic visualization map of the body that is displayed on a display;
- wherein transmitted signals received from the signal receivers are converted by the controller and/or the external processor into the 4D anatomic visualization map by at least one of spectroscopy, thermography, radiography and computer tomography, scintillators, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or ultrasound, and by at least one of iterative reconstruction, filtered back projection, convolutional neural networks, or Fourier transformation;
- wherein the transmitted signals are evaluated by the external processor for accuracy and reliability, and on condition that a transmitted signal is identified as not meeting predetermined standards of performance, or failure of the medical device to operate as required by the user, the medical device is instructed by the external processor to be at least one of moved to a predetermined location in the body for collection, turned off, destroyed, collected by another medical device, removed from the body as waste, or have the transmitted signal that fails to meet predetermined standards of performance ignored or bypassed by the external processor;
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- wherein an automated alert is sent to the user that the medical device fails to meet the predetermined standards of performance.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.