Systems And Methods For Visualizing Anatomy, Locating Medical Devices, Or Placing Medical Devices

An anatomy-visualizing system, comprising:

• an ultrasound-imaging system, including:
• an ultrasound probe configured to emit ultrasound signals into a patient and receive echoed ultrasound signals from the patient by way of a piezoelectric sensor array, and
• a console having electronic circuitry including memory and a processor configured to transform the echoed ultrasound signals to produce ultrasound-image segments corresponding to anatomical structures of the patient;
• and
• an alternative-reality headset, including:
• a frame having electronic circuitry including memory and a processor;
• and
• a display screen coupled to the frame through which display screen a wearer of the alternative-reality headset can see the patient, the display screen configured to display objects of virtual anatomy over the patient corresponding to the ultrasound-image segments.

A method of a medical device-placing system, comprising:

• emitting ultrasound signals into a limb of a patient and receiving echoed ultrasound signals from the patient's limb by way of a piezoelectric sensor array of an ultrasound probe;
• transforming the echoed ultrasound signals with a console having electronic circuitry including memory and a processor to produce ultrasound-image segments corresponding to anatomical structures of the patient's limb;
• transforming magnetic-sensor signals from an array of magnetic sensors embedded within a housing placed about the patient's limb with the console into location information for a magnetized medical device within the patient's limb;
• and
• displaying over the patient's limb on a see-through display screen of an alternative-reality headset having electronic circuitry including memory and a processor in a frame coupled to the display screen a virtual medical device in accordance with the location information for the medical device within objects of virtual anatomy corresponding to the ultrasound-image segments.