Portable Visual Anatomic Guidance System for Diagnostic Ultrasound Applications

Waveband Corporation offers to develop a portable 3D visual anatomical guidance solution to support medical ultrasound devices in order to provide military personnel expert assistance in performing diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound on the battlefield. The proposed solution will be a rugged and easily deployable visual interface to examine and treat the injured or sick in far-forward conditions in which lower-skilled medics would have to acquire and transmit these scans to higher-skilled clinicians working at a remote telemedicine facility. The system, called 3D Anatomically Guided Ultrasound Device will use a state-of-the art portable real-time animation solution to display a high fidelity model of the human body and provide active computer assistance to the medic performing the examination by visually displaying how the image plane of the ultrasound probe moves toward the specified anatomic location as she or he manipulates the ultrasound probe over the combatant's body. Our innovative approach employs Digital Human Technology (DHT) and image guided external registration techniques to measure the 3D motion of the probe and register its location to the precise features of the combatant's body. Therefore, our 3D visualization interface will be easily integratable with any existing ultrasound device used in clinical practice today.