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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2019
Applicant:
Echosens, Paris, FR;
Inventors:
Stéphane Audière, Paris, FR;
Laurent Sandrin, Bourg-la-Reine, FR;
Assignee:
ECHOSENS, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/485 (2013.01); A61B 8/14 (2013.01); A61B 8/5246 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for accumulating ultrasound attenuation data for the detection of disease or other conditions. In one embodiment, an ultrasound system generates a number of imaging pulses during an imaging mode. Echo signals received from the imaging pulses are tested against one or more quality metrics. Attenuation data from the echo signals that pass the quality metrics are accumulated and are used to compute a tissue characteristic. In one embodiment the tissue characteristic is a CAP measurement that is related to an amount of fat in a liver.