Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Institut National De La Sante Et De La Recherche Medicale

Ecole Superieure De Physique Et De Chimie Industrielles De La Ville De Paris

Inserm (Institut National De La Sante Et De La Recherche Medicale)

Iconeus

Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique-Cnrs

Inserm

Bruno-Félix Osmanski

Mathieu Pernot

Mickaël Tanter

Jean-Luc Gennisson

Charlie Demene

Olivier Baud

Jérôme Baranger

An ultrasound probe holding device configured to attach to the head of an infant for transfontanellar imaging is disclosed, including a head pad configured to be in contact with the head of the infant and including a central opening, wherein the head pad is configured to receive an ultrasound probe; a pad squeezer, including a central opening and configured to cooperate with the head pad to allow an axial guidance of the head pad along a guidance axis substantially perpendicular to a surface tangent to the head of the infant; a device holder configured to be attached to the head of the infant and exert a downward force on the pad squeezer, along said guidance axis; and a repellent configured to exert a repellent force between the pad squeezer and the head pad when the device holder exerts the downward force on the pad squeezer.

Ultrasound probe holding devices for infants

According to the invention, n incident acoustic waves Ei(t), obtained by linearly combining n elemental incident waves E(t) with an encoding matrix Hc are consecutively transmitted in a medium to be imaged. n reverberated waves Ri(t) from the medium to be imaged are then consecutively detected, following the transmission of the n incident waves; then n elemental reverberated waves R(t) are determined by linearly combining the detected n reverberated waves Ri(t) with a decoding matrix Hd. The Hc and Hd matrices are such that Hc&#xb7;Hd=D, where D is a diagonal matrix of order n, all the diagonal elements of which are greater than 1.

Acoustic imaging method and device for detecting linearly combined reverberated waves via decoding matrices

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Bruno-Félix Osmanski