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Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 10, 2018
Applicants:

Institut National DE LA Sante DE LA Recherche Medicale (Inserm), Paris, FR;

Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Villeurbanne, FR;

Centre Léon-bérard, Lyons, FR;

Inventors:

William Apoutou N'Djin, Lyons, FR;

Kazuhiro Matsui, Tokyo, JP;

Françoise Chavrier, Lyons, FR;

Rémi Souchon, Lyons, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/07 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61N 7/02 (2006.01); G01N 29/28 (2006.01); A61N 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); A61B 8/4494 (2013.01); A61N 7/02 (2013.01); G01N 29/07 (2013.01); G01N 29/28 (2013.01); A61N 2007/0052 (2013.01); G01N 2291/023 (2013.01);
Abstract

This method for imaging in real time the propagation of a mechanical wave in an acoustically propagative medium comprises steps of: a) emitting () a mechanical wave in an acoustically propagative medium, using an acoustic source being placed in an emission region of the acoustically propagative medium, b) measuring () voltage signal waveform values at a reception region, using an acoustic measurement unit; c) calculating () acoustic field values in the acoustically propagative medium, between the emission region and the reception region, using a reconstruction algorithm implemented in a signal processing unit, and the signal waveform values measured during step b) d) generating an image, using an image generation device and using the calculated acoustic field values.


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