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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2019
Applicant:
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Yusuke Nozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigeru Tamatsukuri, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0215 (2006.01); A61B 5/01 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/02 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 5/103 (2006.01); A61B 5/1455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0215 (2013.01); A61B 5/00 (2013.01); A61B 5/01 (2013.01); A61B 5/02028 (2013.01); A61B 5/1032 (2013.01); A61B 5/1107 (2013.01); A61B 5/6848 (2013.01); A61B 5/6869 (2013.01); A61B 5/1455 (2013.01);
Abstract
A myocardial infarction detection method and apparatus is described that includes a stiffness measurement step of measuring myocardial stiffness of a cardiac muscle of a subject, and a determination step of determining, based on the myocardial stiffness, whether or not infarction is present in the cardiac muscle.