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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2019
Applicant:
Northeastern University, Boston, MA (US);
Inventor:
Qianqian Fang, North Reading, MA (US);
Assignee:
Northeastern University, Boston, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/1455 (2006.01); A61B 5/0536 (2021.01); A61B 5/107 (2006.01); A61B 5/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/4887 (2013.01); A61B 5/0042 (2013.01); A61B 5/0073 (2013.01); A61B 5/0091 (2013.01); A61B 5/015 (2013.01); A61B 5/0536 (2013.01); A61B 5/1075 (2013.01); A61B 5/1079 (2013.01); A61B 5/14553 (2013.01); A61B 5/4872 (2013.01); A61B 5/4875 (2013.01); A61B 5/6898 (2013.01); A61B 5/7425 (2013.01);
Abstract
A detector and inclusion location method that uses a reconstruction technique to target and localize sparse small-sized but high-contrast objects, such as a tumor inside tissue. The reconstruction technique applied, can dramatically enhance the property contrast of the tumors or abnormal inclusions by ten to one hundred fold. The reconstruction technique enables the use of nonlinear imaging ill-posed techniques that are function-oriented imaging techniques without any need for structural prior knowledge.