Sunlight Medical Ltd.

Glucon Medical Ltd

Shai Ashkenazi

Benny Pesach

Ron Nagar

Michal Balberg

Edward Kantorovich

Yehuda Niv

Avner Adoram

Vladimir Pasternak

Elena Ledenev

Andrey Mordvinov

A method for determining an acoustic velocity in a segment of a bone covered with a layer of soft tissue having an outer surface, which includes determining a first travel time of a first ultrasonic wave along a first path from the outer surface back to the outer surface which path includes at least a first part of the bone segment together with determining a second travel time of a second ultrasonic wave along a second path from the outer surface back to the outer surface, which path includes at least a second part of the bone segment and also determining a third travel time of a third ultrasonic wave along a third path from the outer surface back to the outer surface which path includes at least a third part of the bone segment, and deriving the acoustic velocity in the segment of bone from the three determined travel times.

Determination of acoustic velocity in bone

A system for monitoring a position of an instrument in a subject includes a light transmission medium configured to transmit light pulses to a desired region to produce an acoustic signal, at least one ultrasound sensor configured to receive the acoustic signal and to produce a transduced signal from the acoustic signal, and a processing unit connected to the at least one ultrasound sensor and configured to locate a source of the acoustic signal using the transduced signal.

Ultrasonic position indicator

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Rehovot, Israel

Shai Ashkenazi