Patent ID: 9538983
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A device for guiding a medical imaging probe in order to bring said probe in proximity to an anatomical volume, the probe comprising means for acquiring images of the anatomical volume, the device comprising at least one sensor fixed to the probe and capable of generating signals representing at least one rotation of the probe in space, the device comprises a control unit which is connected to the probe and comprises means for processing the images in order to localize the probe relative to the anatomical volume, the processing means being capable of deducing a rotation of the probe in space on the basis of the signals generated by the sensor, the processing means comprising means for estimating a plurality of plausible positions of the probe relative to the anatomical volume on the basis of at least the deduction of the rotation of the probe in space, the processing means being arranged in order to determine the position of the probe relative to the anatomical volume on the basis of: a reference image of the anatomical volume acquired by the means for acquiring images of the anatomical volume during an initialization phase, at least one image acquired by the image acquisition means during a phase of motion following the initialization phase, and the plausible positions.