Graphical User Interface For Catheter Positioning And Insertion

• US 20160183841A1
• Filed: 08/12/2014
• Published: 06/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. (Intuitive Surgical Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. (Intuitive Surgical Holdings, LLC)
• Inventors: Reiley, Carol, Duindam, Vincent
• Granted Patent: US 11,800,991 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/34 Trocars; Puncturing needles pointed biopsy instruments A61B10/0233; devices for piercing the ear-lobes A44C7/001; seals or hemostasis valves A61M39/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2010/045 Needles pointed biopsy devices with vacuum aspiration A61B10/0283
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/107 Visualisation of planned trajectories or target regions
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/2051 Electromagnetic tracking systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/2061 using shape-sensors, e.g. fiber shape sensors with Bragg gratings
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/25 User interfaces for surgical systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/30 Surgical robots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/066 Superposing sensor position on an image of the patient, e.g. obtained by ultrasound or x-ray imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/0166 Sensors, electrodes or the like for guiding the catheter to a target zone, e.g. image guided or magnetically guided
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/01 Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters A61M25/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0105 Steering means as part of the catheter or advancing means; Markers for positioning systems for detection of markers A61B

Abstract

A method of guiding an interventional instrument within a patient anatomy comprises processing a target location within the patient anatomy and receiving a position for a tip portion of an interventional instrument at a first location within the patient anatomy. The method also comprises determining a three-dimensional distance between the first location and the target location and displaying a symbol representing the target location and a symbol representing the tip portion of the interventional instrument.

Claims

1. A method of guiding an interventional instrument within a patient anatomy, the method comprising:

processing a target location within the patient anatomy;

receiving a position for a tip portion of an interventional instrument at a first location within the patient anatomy;

determining a three-dimensional distance between the first location and the target location; and

displaying a symbol representing the target location and a symbol representing the tip portion of the interventional instrument.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying a symbol representing a direction between the position of the tip portion and the target location.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying a symbol representing an insertion distance component of the three dimensional distance.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the symbol representing the insertion distance is concentric with the symbol representing the target location.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein the symbol representing the insertion distance is concentric with the symbol representing the tip portion.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein the symbol representing the insertion distance component is scalable in size.

7. The method of claim 3 further comprising

changing the size of the symbol representing the insertion distance component as the three-dimensional distance between the first location and the target location is changed.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying the symbols representing the target location and tip portion in a first window of a display and displaying a secondary guidance image in a second window of the display.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the symbols in the first window are rotationally aligned with the secondary guidance image in the second window.

11. The method of claim 9 further comprising displaying in the second window directional guidance information for directing the tip portion toward the target location.

8. (canceled)

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18. A system comprising:

non-transitory computer readable media containing computer executable instructions for guiding an interventional instrument within a patient anatomy including

instructions for processing a target location within the patient anatomy;

instructions for receiving a position of a tip portion of an interventional instrument at a first location within the patient anatomy;

instructions for determining a three-dimensional distance between the first location and the target location; and

instructions for displaying a symbol representing the target location and a symbol representing the tip portion of the interventional instrument.

19. The system of claim 18 further comprising instructions for displaying a symbol representing a direction between the position of the tip portion and the target location

20. The system of claim 18 further comprising instructions for displaying a symbol representing an insertion distance component of the three dimensional distance.

21. The system of claim 20 wherein the symbol representing the insertion distance is concentric with the symbol representing the target location.

22. The system of claim 20 wherein the symbol representing the insertion distance is concentric with the symbol representing the tip portion.

23. The system of claim 20 wherein the symbol representing the insertion distance component is scalable in size.

24. The system of claim 20 further comprising

instructions for changing the size of the symbol representing the insertion distance component as the three-dimensional distance between the first location and the target location is changed.

26. The system of claim 18 further comprising instructions for displaying the symbols representing the target location and tip portion in a first window of a display and instructions for displaying a secondary guidance image in a second window of the display.

27. The system of claim 26 wherein the symbols in the first window are rotationally aligned with the secondary guidance image in the second window.

28. The system of claim 26 further composing instructions for displaying in the second window directional guidance information for directing the tip portion toward the target location.

25. (canceled)

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