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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2019
Applicant:
Echosens, Paris, FR;
Inventor:
Laurent Sandrin, Bourg-la-Reine, FR;
Assignee:
ECHOSENS, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/485 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 8/4411 (2013.01); A61B 8/4455 (2013.01); A61B 8/4483 (2013.01);
Abstract
A transient elastography probe includes a probe body; an ultrasound transducer configured to generate an ultrasound beam along an axis, the ultrasound beam being generated from a face of the ultrasound transducer; a vibrator located inside the probe body and arranged so as to induce a movement of the ultrasound transducer along a predefined axis; the ultrasound transducer being mounted on the vibrator so that the predefined axis and the axis of the ultrasound beam coincide with each other, and a sealing membrane hugging the outer contours of the ultrasound transducer.