Patent ID: 8911370
Filing Date: 2014-12-16
Classification: A61B,B82Y

Abstract:
1. A system for screening cellular tissue, comprising: an ultrasound probe adapted to generate image data and configured to be manually positioned and oriented, with respect to the cellular tissue, by a human operator; a sensor system configured to track a linear position and an angular orientation of the ultrasound probe and to provide feedback to the human operator as the ultrasound probe is manually positioned and orientated by the human operator across the cellular tissue, wherein the sensor system is configured to provide the feedback to the human operator upon determining whether a speed of the ultrasound probe being manually moved by the human operator over the cellular tissue matches a predetermined speed, and to provide the feedback to the human operator upon determining whether a linear position and an angular orientation of the ultrasound probe being manually positioned by the human operator at a start of a scan row matches a predetermined linear position and a predetermined angular orientation of the ultrasound probe, respectively, for the start of the scan row; a receiver adapted to acquire image data from the ultrasound probe, the image data representing a plurality of scan images, and to receive linear position and angular orientation data from the sensor system, such that each scan image is associated with linear position and angular orientation data; and an image viewer configured to rapidly and sequentially display the scan images at a predetermined frame rate as frames in a video, wherein each first scan image in the subsequent scan rows is displayed immediately following a respective last scan image in a prior scan row.