University of Washington

Wei Lu

Michael R Bailey

Oleg A Sapozhnikov

Bryan Cunitz

Peter John Kaczkowski

Neil R Owen

Barbrina Dunmire

John Kucewicz

Anup Shah

Marla Paun

Paul Illian

Peter Kaczkowski

Methods, computing devices, and computer-readable medium are described herein related to producing detection signals configured to induce an excited state of an object. A computing device may receive reflection signals, where the reflection signals correspond to at least one detection signals reflected from the object. Based on the received reflection signals, a presence of the object in the excited state may be determined. Further, an output device may provide an indication of the presence of the object in the excited state.

Determining a presence of an object

Described herein are methods and apparatus for detecting stones by ultrasound, in which the ultrasound reflections from a stone are preferentially selected and accentuated relative to the ultrasound reflections from blood or tissue. Also described herein are methods and apparatus for applying pushing ultrasound to in vivo stones or other objects, to facilitate the removal of such in vivo objects.

Ultrasound based method and apparatus for stone detection and to facilitate clearance thereof

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