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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 04, 2015
Applicant:

Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc., Plymouth, MI (US);

Inventors:

Gursharan Singh Sandhu, Plymouth, MI (US);

Cuiping Li, Plymouth, MI (US);

Olivier Roy, Plymouth, MI (US);

Steven Schmidt, Plymouth, MI (US);

Nebojsa Duric, Plymouth, MI (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/15 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/15 (2013.01); A61B 8/0825 (2013.01); A61B 8/4494 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); G06T 11/006 (2013.01); G06T 2211/424 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for generating an enhanced image of a volume of tissue, the method comprising: emitting acoustic waveforms toward the volume of tissue; detecting a set of acoustic signals derived from acoustic waveforms interacting with the volume of tissue; generating, from the set of acoustic signals, an initial model representing a distribution of an acoustomechanical parameter across a region of the volume of tissue; extracting a set of frequency components, from the set of acoustic signals; generating a first simulated wavefield with a first frequency component of the set of frequency components; generating an updated model of the initial model with the first simulated wavefield; iteratively refining the updated model with a set of simulated wavefields associated with the set of frequency components until a threshold condition is satisfied, thereby producing a final model; and generating the enhanced image from the final model of the volume of tissue.


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