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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2017
Applicants:
Oleg Prus, Haifa, IL;
Yoav Levy, Hinanit, IL;
Assignee:
INSIGHTEC, LTD., Tirat Carmel, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/14 (2013.01); A61B 8/08 (2013.01); A61B 8/085 (2013.01); A61B 8/0808 (2013.01); A61B 8/4416 (2013.01); A61B 8/4488 (2013.01); A61B 8/4494 (2013.01); A61B 8/481 (2013.01); A61B 8/5215 (2013.01); A61B 8/5223 (2013.01); A61B 8/5292 (2013.01); A61B 8/54 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various approaches for detecting microbubble cavitation resulting from ultrasound waves transmitted from an ultrasound transducer include associating at least one time-domain reference signal with microbubble cavitation; causing the transducer to transmit one or more ultrasound pulse; acquiring, in the time domain, an echo signal from microbubbles in response to the transmitted ultrasound pulse(s); correlating at least a portion of the echo signal to at least a corresponding portion of the time-domain reference signal based on similarity therebetween; and detecting the microbubble cavitation based on the corresponding portion of the reference signal.