HAND-HELD MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED USER INTERFACE FOR DEPLOYING ON-SCREEN GRAPHICAL TOOLS AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUSES AND METHODS

摘要

A portable ultrasound system having an enhanced user interface is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a portable ultrasound system can include a hand-held base unit configured to present a graphical user interface that contains a first control area, a second control area, and an active image area. The first control area can have a number of graphical tools that can each be selectively activated by a user's finger. The second control area can include a control area having plurality of controls that can be selectively activated by the user's thumb to select a tool property of a number of tool properties associated with the selected one of the graphical tools. The active image area can display an ultrasound image, and the selected one of the graphical tools can be overlaid onto the image with the user-selected tool property.

主权项

1. A method executed by a processor to overly graphical tools on ultrasound images in a portable ultrasound system, the method comprising:
performing an ultrasound scan with a transducer device and a base unit operably coupled to the transducer device, wherein the base unit includes a touch-screen display; displaying an image on an active image area of the touchscreen display based on the ultrasound scan; displaying a first control area on the touchscreen display having a plurality of graphical tools that can be selectively activated by a user's finger; detecting a selection of a graphical tool from the plurality of graphical tools; displaying a second control area; displaying a plurality of controls in the second control area based on the detected selection of the graphical tool, wherein the plurality of controls can be selectively activated by a user's thumb when holding the base unit to select a tool property of a number of tool properties; detecting a selection of a control from the plurality of controls; and overlaying onto the image the selected one of the graphical tools with the selected one of the tool properties.