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 1):
A stationary dual modality endocavity imaging and treatment system, comprising:\n a housing that does not rotate with respect to the relative position of the housing and objects being imaged and treated; a nuclear detector system housed within the housing, the nuclear detector system defining a single fixed first origin of a first three-dimensional coordinate system and configured for 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 an endocavity object of interest, relative to the fixed first origin, is calculated; an ultrasound detector system housed within the housing, the ultrasound detector system defining a single fixed second origin of a single fixed second three-dimensional coordinate system and configured for detecting ultrasound imaging data as single fixed three-dimensional coordinate positions relative to the single fixed second origin; a needle supported by the housing and adjustably positionable relative thereto, the needle having a radiation signature; and a data processing module configured to receive the nuclear radiation imaging data the nuclear detector system 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; wherein the data processing module is further configured to combine the nuclear radiation imaging data with the ultrasound imaging data utilizing coordinate transformation to co-register points of the first and second three-dimensional coordinate systems to calculate the distance between the needle and the endocavity object of interest; and wherein the data processing module is further configured to generate and output an image showing the relative distance between the needle and the endocavity 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): 0.4759108448256549
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4838653699795358
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.476706297341043
- Mean Citation Score: 220.23092000000003
- Max Citation Score: 240.0395
- Similarity Product: 175.8980428319871

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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