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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. 02, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 12, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Nebojsa Duric, Novi, MI (US);

Peter John Littrup, Novi, MI (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); A61B 8/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/0825 (2013.01); A61B 8/085 (2013.01); A61B 8/0833 (2013.01); A61B 8/406 (2013.01); A61B 8/4494 (2013.01); A61B 8/461 (2013.01); A61B 8/466 (2013.01); A61B 8/469 (2013.01); A61B 8/481 (2013.01); A61B 8/483 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); A61B 8/5223 (2013.01); G06T 7/0014 (2013.01); A61B 8/06 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10136 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30068 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for characterizing tissue of a patient, including receiving acoustic data derived from the interaction between the tissue and the acoustic waves irradiating the tissue; generating a morphology rendering of the tissue from the acoustic data, in which the rendering represents at least one biomechanical property of the tissue; determining a prognostic parameter for a region of interest in the rendering, in which the prognostic parameter incorporates the biomechanical property; and analyzing the prognostic parameter to characterize the region of interest. In some embodiment, the method further includes introducing a contrast agent into the tissue; generating a set of enhanced morphology renderings of the tissue after introducing the contrast agent; determining an enhanced prognostic parameter from the enhanced morphology renderings; and analyzing the enhanced prognostic parameter.


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