Focused ultrasound sonication with mechanical and electronic steering along a computed trajectory
AssigneesCommissariat A L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Universite De Strasbourg
InventorsAdnan SAOOD, Jonathan VAPPOU, Florent NAGEOTTE, Benoit LARRAT
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method for controlling a device intended to be used for opening a blood-brain barrier, including a step of calculating a trajectory and a step of controlling the device to generate a focused ultrasound beam producing a focal spot and to move the focal spot along said trajectory so as to cover a predetermined target volume is disclosed.
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A computer implemented method for controlling a medical device intended to be used for opening a blood-brain barrier, said device being configured to generate a focused ultrasound beam producing a focal spot and to allow electronic and/or mechanical steering of said focal spot, the method comprising the following steps:
- defining a trajectory of said focal spot based on one or more parameters selected from a list including a trajectory pattern, a travel speed of the focal spot and an acceleration of the focal spot;
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- controlling the device to generate said focused ultrasound beam and to move the focal spot along said trajectory so as to cover a predetermined target volume, the step of controlling the device comprises interlacing mechanical steering and electronic steering of the focal spot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.