Invention Application
- Patent Title: Intracorporeal-imaging head
- Patent Title (中): 体内成像头
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Application No.: US10836223Application Date: 2004-05-03
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Publication No.: US20040204646A1Publication Date: 2004-10-14
- Inventor: Michael Nagler , Yoel Zilberstein
- Applicant: V-Target Technologies Ltd.
- Applicant Address: null
- Assignee: V-Target Technologies Ltd.
- Current Assignee: V-Target Technologies Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: null
- Main IPC: A61B005/05
- IPC: A61B005/05 ; A61B006/00

Abstract:
An intracorporeal-imaging head, is provided, which combines at least optical and radioactive-emission imaging, possibly also with high-resolution position tracking. The radioactive-emission-imaging probe has a wide-aperture, or coarse collimator, for high count-rate efficiency; nevertheless, the high-resolution position tracking ensures high resolution of the radioactive-emission image. Specifically, wide-aperture collimation-deconvolution algorithms are provided, for obtaining a high-efficiency, high resolution image of a radioactive-emission source, by scanning the radioactive-emission source with a probe of a wide-aperture collimator, and at the same time, monitoring the position of the radioactive-emission probe, at very fine time intervals, to obtain the equivalence of fine-aperture collimation. The blurring effect of the wide aperture is then corrected mathematically. The intracorporeal-imaging head may further include ultrasound and MRI imagers, as well as a surgical instrument, such as a biopsy needle, a knife, a cryosurgery device, a resection wire, a laser ablation device, an ultrasound ablation device, other devices for localized radiation ablations, devices for implanting brachytherapy seeds, and other minimally invasive devices. According to another embodiment, an intracorporeal-detecting head is provided, which combines at least optical and radioactive-emission detectors, for a nullYes or Nonull type detection, by the at least two modalities.
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