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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2013
Seno Medical Instruments, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Alexander A. Oraevsky, Houston, TX (US);
Sergey A. Ermilov, Houston, TX (US);
Andre Conjusteau, Houston, TX (US);
Peter Brecht, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Vyacheslav Nadvoretskiy, Houston, TX (US);
Richard Su, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Donald G. Herzog, Collingswood, NJ (US);
Bryan Clingman, Chandler, AZ (US);
Jason Zalev, Thornhill, CA;
SENO MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS, INC., San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
An optoacoustic imaging system includes a hand-held imaging probe having a light emitting portion and an array of ultrasonic transducers. The probe includes an acoustic lens having an optically reflective material that operates to avoid image artifacts associated with light interactions with the acoustic lens. The optically reflective material may be a thin, highly optically reflective metallic layer. The acoustic lens may be formed from a material such as silicone rubber filled with titanium dioxide or barium sulfate that allows it to reflect and scatter light from illumination components with substantially no absorption of such light, and yet be optically opaque. The probe may include a housing that provides hypo-echoic encapsulation of the probe. An assembly of the array of ultrasonic transducers may include a hypo-echoic material. The probe may include optical windows, each comprising one or more anti-reflection coated plates with acoustic impedance matching that of tissues to be imaged.