HANDHELD IMAGING DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS

摘要

A monitoring device can be configured to facilitate intra-tissue inspection of a probe at a target region, the monitoring device comprising a housing and a transducer coupled to and at least partially located within the housing. The transducer comprises a longitudinal transducer array aligned to scan a longitudinal cross-section of the target region and a transverse transducer array aligned to scan a transverse cross-section of the target region. The longitudinal transducer array is configured to detect a probe point depth of a probe point of the probe along the longitudinal cross-section. The longitudinal transducer array is also configured to send to a processor longitudinal data about the scan of the longitudinal cross-section to track movement of the probe point based upon at least the longitudinal data and determine the probe point depth based upon at least the longitudinal data. The transverse transducer array is configured to send to the processor transverse data about the scan of the transverse cross-section to determine a transverse cross-section view of the transverse cross-section and determine, concurrently with the transverse cross-section view, a location of a probe point highlight of the probe point of the probe at a longitudinal coordinate of the transverse cross-section view, the longitudinal coordinate corresponding to the probe point depth based upon at least the longitudinal data. Other examples, embodiments, and related methods are described herein.

主权项

1. A monitoring device configured to facilitate intra-tissue inspection of a probe at a target region, the monitoring device comprising:
a housing; and a transducer coupled to and at least partially located within the housing; wherein:
the transducer comprises:
a longitudinal transducer array aligned to scan a longitudinal cross-section of the target region; anda transverse transducer array aligned to scan a transverse cross-section of the target region;the longitudinal transducer array is configured to:
detect a probe point depth of a probe point of the probe along the longitudinal cross-section; andsend to a processor longitudinal data about the scan of the longitudinal cross-section to:
track movement of the probe point based upon at least the longitudinal data; anddetermine the probe point depth based upon at least the longitudinal data; andthe transverse transducer array is configured to send to the processor transverse data about the scan of the transverse cross-section to:
determine a transverse cross-section view of the transverse cross-section; anddetermine, concurrently with the transverse cross-section view, a location of a probe point highlight of the probe point of the probe at a longitudinal coordinate of the transverse cross-section view, the longitudinal coordinate corresponding to the probe point depth based upon at least the longitudinal data.