PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990993
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["600", "424000"]

Abstract:
A dual modality endocavity imaging and treatment system for detection of cancer and targeted biopsy and treatment procedures, comprising: a housing; a nuclear detector system housed within the housing and configured for detecting nuclear radiation imaging data; an ultrasound detector system housed within the housing for detecting ultrasound imaging data; a needle associated with the housing and adjustably positionable relative thereto; and a data processing module configured to receive the nuclear radiation imaging data and the ultrasound imaging data and to generate and output an image showing the relative position of the needle and an endocavity object of interest. The needle may include a distinct radiation signature to facilitate imaging thereof.

Claim (Index 6):
A method of imaging and treating an object of interest within an endocavity, comprising the steps of:\n inserting a portion of a stationary housing of a dual modality endocavity imaging and treatment system into the endocavity, the system including a needle having a radiation signature which is supported by and moveable relative to the stationary housing and a collimator with interleaved apertures; fixing a single physical position of the housing within the endocavity so that the single relative position of the housing and the object being imaged is stationary and fixed; activating a nuclear detector system housed within the stationary housing, the nuclear detector system defining a single fixed first origin of a first three-dimensional coordinate system, and detecting nuclear radiation imaging data by guiding photons, using a collimator with interleaved apertures, toward a detector to generate a signal to be processed and mapped out on the plane parallel to the detector surface as single fixed three-dimensional coordinate positions relative to the single fixed first origin from which a distance between the fixed first origin and a position of the object of interest, relative to the fixed first origin, is calculated; activating an ultrasound detector system and detecting ultrasound imaging data representing objects, including the object of interest and the needle, within the endocavity, including second three-dimensional coordinate data of the objects relative to a single fixed second origin defined at the ultrasound detector system; receiving, at a data processing module, nuclear radiation imaging data which includes first three-dimensional coordinate system data on the position of the endocavity object of interest and a position of the needle, relative to the fixed first origin and the ultrasound imaging data which includes second three-dimensional coordinate system data on the position of the needle; utilizing coordinate transformation to co-register the first three-dimensional coordinate data and the second three-dimensional coordinate data to calculate the distance between the needle and the endocavity object of interest; and generating and outputting an image showing the distance between the needle and the object of interest.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05172
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13077627', '11607075', '09897326', '15195116', '13419574']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4756787500284651
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4848819724629407
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4765990722719128
- Mean Citation Score: 220.23092000000003
- Max Citation Score: 240.0395
- Similarity Product: 173.51386048370605

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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