The Breast Volume Navigator (BVN™) is an add-on accessory for existing ultrasound imaging systems and is intended to control position and movement of ultrasound transducers for the systematic acquisition of 2-dimensional image slices throughout a volume of interest. The BVN™ is intended to acquire, analyze, store and retrieve digital ultrasound images for computerized 3-dimensional image processing. The BVN™ is intended to assist health care providers trained in breast ultrasound with tools for electromagnetic tracking of instruments with respect of breast ultrasound images generated from FDA cleared hand-held ultrasound devices. The BVN™ is indicated for use as an adjunct to mammography for B-mode ultrasonic imaging of a patient's breast when used with a linear array transducer. The BVN™ is indicated for use as an adjunct to hand-held breast ultrasound to assist the health care providers trained in breast ultrasound in their scanning process. The scanning paths are displayed on a route map and provide quality control of scanning to provide an overall observation of scanning process.
An assembly of electrically-powered devices designed for extracorporeal and/or intracorporeal (endosonography or endoscopic) ultrasound imaging procedures involving the breast. It typically includes special imaging tables used to optimize the ability to give reproducible images of the breast. It typically includes software packages that support a variety of static or real-time breast specific imaging used primarily for oncology. It will generate ultrasound pulses, direct them to the target area, detect the ultrasound echoes, and process the resulting information to produce and display static or dynamic two- or three-dimensional (3-D) images.
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