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AssigneeBoston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
InventorsTimothy G. Curran, Wenuang Li, Corydon Carlson
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The present disclosure is directed towards detecting the potential for and/or buildup of torsional energy in a rotational imaging device. The disclosure can provide an alert to the user, to allow the user to recover from the situation before catastrophic complications (e.g., knotting of the core, or the like) occur. The disclosure provides to correlate sequential images captured by the rotational imaging device to detect the potential for and/or buildup of torsional energy in the device. Rotation between sequential images can be correlated to identify when torsional energy is building in the device.
A computer-implemented method to provide an alert of potential twisting of a rotational imaging device, comprising:
The computer-implemented method of claim 16, comprising filtering the series of image frames to generate a filtered series of image frames, wherein identifying the angle of rotation between the first image frame and the second image frame comprising identifying the angle of rotation from the filtered series of image frames.
An intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging system configured to be coupled to a motor drive unit and an IVUS catheter, the IVUS imaging system comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage device, comprising instructions that when executed by a processor of an intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging system cause the IVUS imaging system to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.