NETWORKED IMAGING SYSTEM WITH REAL-TIME FEEDBACK LOOP

• US 20170128026A1
• Filed: 01/19/2017
• Published: 05/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wenzel Spine, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Ortho Kinematics, Inc.
• Inventors: DEITZ, Adam
• Application Number:
  US15/409,856
• Publication Number:
  US 20170128026A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/374 NMR or MRI
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/376 using X-rays, e.g. fluoroscopy
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/17 Comprising radiolucent components
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2576/00 Medical imaging apparatus involving image processing or analysis A61B1/00009, A61B6/52 and A61B8/52 take precedence; image processing per se G06T; details of algorithms for analysing medical images G06T7/0012
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0013 Medical image data A61B1/00011, A61B6/56, A61B8/56 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1116 Determining posture transitions
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1128 using image analysis A61B5/1127 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4528 Joints A61B5/4533, A61B5/4538 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4561 Evaluating static posture, e.g. undesirable back curvature A61B5/1116 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/702 Posture restraints
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/704 Tables
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/04 Positioning of patients; Tiltable beds or the like operating tables A61G13/00; operating chairs A61G15/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/0487 Motor-assisted positioning
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/469 for selecting a region of interest [ROI]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/505 for diagnosis of bone
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/547 involving tracking of position of the device or parts of the device
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0012 Biomedical image inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/20 Analysis of motion motion estimation for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/43, H04N19/51

Abstract

An integrated imaging system for creating an optimal imaging session by importing information in real time from several sources over a network and using that information to automatically and continuously adjust the parameters of the imaging session so as to create the optimal session for the prescribed testing session.

Claims

1. An apparatus for use in a shared computer network being able to carry real-time data streams the apparatus comprising:

a non-transitory machine-readable medium that provides instructions over the shared computer network that, when executed by a set of processors, causes the processors to provide instructions to at least one of a motion device and an imaging device which are connected to the shared computer network comprising;

receiving information from at least one of the motion device and the imaging device during an imaging session over the shared computer network;

analyzing the received information during the imaging session;

determining whether a target anatomy is within a field of view during the imaging session;

evaluating a position of the imaging device, a position of the motion device, a radiographic imaging technique, and a geometric configuration of a collimator;

determining whether a change to one or more of a position of the imaging device, a position of the motion device, a radiographic imaging technique, and a geometric configuration of a collimator will bring the target anatomy within the field of view; and

instructing at least one of the motion device and imaging device over the shared computer network to change an imaging environment automatically and continuously during the imaging session to maintain the target anatomy within a field of view by one or more of changing the position of the imaging device, changing the position of the motion device, changing the radiographic imaging technique, and changing the geometric configuration of the collimator.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the instructions are streamed over the shared computer network a plurality of times during the imaging session.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the imaging device is an X-ray tube and image intensifier with dosage control.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the imaging device is a magnetic resonance scanner.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein motion device further comprises a laterally moveable platform.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the movable platform is situated on a support which lies on an upper surface of the platform base.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the imaging device is an X-ray tube and image intensifier with dosage control.

8. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the imaging device is a magnetic resonance scanner.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the motion device further comprises a control arm for driving movement of a moveable platform.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 further comprising a processing system.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the motion device is adapted to communicate motion information to the imaging device during use.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein continuous adjustments are made to an imaging environment.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein a range of motion of the motion device is based on a selected target motion for a patient.

14. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein a range of motion of the device is based on a gross motion of a patient.