US20060183993A1 - Device, System, and Method for Locating An In-vivo Signal Source - Google Patents > 자유게시판

• 목록
• 답변
• 글쓰기
• 게시판 리스트 옵션
  • 수정
  • 삭제

More specifically, the present invention relates to devices, programs, and strategies for locating an in-vivo signal supply. Devices, systems and methods for in-vivo sensing of passages or cavities inside a physique, and for sensing and gathering info are identified in the artwork. In-vivo sensing gadgets equivalent to capsules could embrace a sensing system and best item finder gadget a transmission system, ItagPro whereby the sensing system collects knowledge and the transmission system transmits the collected knowledge using Radio Frequency (RF) to an exterior ItagPro receiver system, e.g., for iTagPro further processing and show. Some in-vivo imaging systems embody a picture sensor carried within a swallowable gadget similar to a capsule. GI tract, or other physique lumen or body cavity being imaged, whereas the machine might move by means of your complete digestive tract and will operate as an autonomous video endoscope. Prior makes an attempt have been made at monitoring an intra-gastric and intrauterine transmitting device include spatially scanning a non-ambulatory affected person with a receiver. Such programs could require laboratory gadget that is probably not portable and may not be business.

Some embodiments of the invention provide, for ItagPro example, a system and technique for monitoring an in-vivo image sensor, the system together with a location detecting unit to find the in-vivo image sensor over time and a data modifying unit to modify the information sampled by the placement detecting based mostly on, for instance, data sensed by the in-vivo image sensor. Other suitable strategies could also be used to change and/or improve data sampled form the location detection unit as could also be described herein. Embodiments of the invention might permit varied different advantages, and may be used along with various different functions. FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a knowledge recorder in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of an in-vivo sign supply in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. FIG. 5 is a schematic illustration of three signal vectors in a two dimensional plane, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 6 is a schematic illustration of a three signal vectors in three dimensional area, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. FIG. 7A is a schematic illustration of a graph of a weighing perform for sign vectors, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. FIG. 7B is a schematic illustration of a graph of a sign weight factor as a perform of normalized sign strength, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. FIG. 8 is a schematic block diagram of an in-vivo sensing system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. FIG. 9A is a schematic illustration of a graph indicating an X-axis location of an in-vivo signal supply as a function of time, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. FIG. 9B is a schematic illustration of a graph indicating a Y-axis location of an in-vivo sign supply as a perform of time, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 10 is a circulation-chart diagram of a method of processing knowledge factors sampled by a location detecting unit to locate an in-vivo sign source, for example, an in-vivo picture sensor over time in accordance with an embodiment of the current invention. H, ItagPro in-vivo sensing of temperature, in-vivo sensing of pressure, in-vivo sensing of electrical impedance, in-vivo detection of a substance or a fabric, in-vivo detection of a medical situation or a pathology, in-vivo acquisition or analysis of information, and/or varied different in-vivo sensing devices, systems, and strategies. Embodiments of the current invention could include apparatuses for performing the operations herein. Such apparatus could also be specifically constructed for the desired purposes, or it might comprise a general objective computer selectively activated, tailored, operated, configured or re-configured by a pc program stored in the computer. Such a computer program could also be saved in a computer readable storage medium, such as, however not limited to, a disk, a tough disk drive, a floppy disk, an optical disk, a CD-ROM, a DVD, a magnetic-optical disk, Read-Only Memory (ROM), Random Access Memory (RAM), Electrically Programmable ROM (EPROM), ItagPro Electrically Erasable and Programmable ROM (EEPROM), Flash reminiscence, volatile reminiscence, non-unstable memory, iTagPro locator magnetic or optical cards, or some other sort of storage media or storage unit suitable for storing electronic directions and able to being operatively linked to a pc system bus or a computing platform.