Systems and methods for guiding injections

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10143809-B2
Application number	US-201615376885-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2016
Priority date	Oct 30, 2012
Publication date	Dec 4, 2018
Grant date	Dec 4, 2018

Abstract

Systems and methods are described herein for guided injection, which include: one or more controllable light-emitting elements configured to emit non-destructive light and a computing device operably connected to the one or more controllable light-emitting elements configured to emit non-destructive light, the computing device including a processor operable to receive at least one digital representation of a body region of an individual, the body region of the individual including one or more physical registration landmarks, the at least one digital representation including one or more digitally registered injection sites and one or more digital registration landmarks corresponding to the one or more physical registration landmarks on the body region; and control the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate a location of a surface of the body region of the individual corresponding in location to at least one of the one or more digitally registered injection sites.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for guiding injection in an individual comprising:
receiving a digitally-rendered injection-treatment plan with a computing device operably coupled to one or more controllable light-emitting elements and at least one image capture device, the digitally-rendered injection-treatment plan part of an injection-treatment plan and including one or more digitally registered injection sites arranged in an injection-treatment pattern on a digital representation of a skin surface of an individual's face, the one or more digitally registered injection sites registered relative to one or more digital registration landmarks corresponding to one or more physical registration landmarks on the skin surface of the individual's face;
actuating at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face in the injection-treatment pattern in accordance with the digitally-rendered injection-treatment plan;
receiving from the at least one image capture device one or more digital images of a visual field of the skin surface of the individual's face, the visual field including the illuminated one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face;
adjusting the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements so as to align the illuminated one or more injection sites relative to the one or more physical registration landmarks on the skin surface of the individual's face to substantially correspond to the digitally-rendered injection-treatment plan; and
injecting at least one injectable agent with an injector into an underlying tissue of the skin surface of the individual's face at or near at least one of the one or more illuminated injection sites.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face comprises:
actuating at least one of one or more controllable light-emitting elements configured to emit non-destructive light to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements configured to emit non-destructive light comprises:
one or more of a controllable light-emitting diode, laser, laser diode, collimated light source, projector, or focused light source configured to emit non-destructive light.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face comprises:
actuating at least one of one or more controllable light-emitting elements mounted on a head region of a user to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face, wherein the one or more controllable light-emitting elements mounted on the head region of the user are configured to emit non-destructive light.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face in the injection-treatment pattern in accordance with the digitally-rendered injection-treatment plan comprises:
autonomously actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face in the injection-treatment pattern using the computing device operably coupled to the one or more controllable light-emitting elements, the computing device accessing the received digitally-rendered injection-treatment plan and autonomously controlling actuation of the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face in accordance with the received digitally-rendered injection-treatment plan.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the injection-treatment plan is specific to the individual.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the injection-treatment plan is specific to a condition being treated.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face comprises:
actuating at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face with one or more of a color or a pattern of light representative of at least one injection-treatment parameter.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face with one or more of a pattern of light representative of at least one injection-treatment parameter comprises:
actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face with one or more of a crosshair, circle, or concentric circles representative of at least one injection-treatment parameter.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face with one or more of a pattern of light representative of at least one injection-treatment parameter comprises:
actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face with one or more of a letter, number, or symbol representative of at least one injection-treatment parameter.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the at least one injection-treatment parameter comprises:
at least one of a type of injectable agent, a type of injector, a dosage of an injectable agent, a sequence of dosing an injectable agent, or a timing of dosing an injectable agent.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face in the injection-treatment pattern comprises:
actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate all of the one or more injection sites simultaneously on the skin surface of the individual's face in the injection-treatment pattern.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate the one or more injection sites on the skin surface of the individual's face in the injection-treatment pattern comprises:
actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate each of the one or more injection sites sequentially on the skin surface of the individual's face in the injection-treatment pattern.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to illuminate each of the one or more injection sites sequentially on the skin surface of the individual's face comprises:
actuating the at least one of the one or more controllable light-emitting elements to

Assignees

• Elwha Llc

Inventors

• Boyden Edward S
• Chin Hon Wah
• Della Rocca Gregory J
• Hawkins Daniel
• Hyde Roderick A
• Langer Robert
• Leuthardt Eric C
• Myckatyn Terence
• Parikh Parag Jitendra
• Rivet Dennis J
• Shimony Joshua S
• Smith Michael A
• Sweeney Elizabeth A
• Tegreene Clarence T

Classifications

• A61M2205/587

  Lighting arrangements · CPC title

• A61M5/427 Primary

  Locating point where body is to be pierced, e.g. vein location means using ultrasonic waves, injection site templates · CPC title

• A61B2090/364

  Correlation of different images or relation of image positions in respect to the body · CPC title

• A61B90/13

  guided by light, e.g. laser pointers · CPC title

• A61B90/11

  with guides for needles or instruments, e.g. arcuate slides or ball joints · CPC title