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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Noam Gavriely, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
Karmel Medical Acoustic Technologies Ltd., Yokneam-Illit, IL;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/08 ; A61B 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/08 ; A61B 7/00 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for determining the air pressure in a lung comprises making a determination of the velocity of sound in the lung and estimating the pressure within the lung based on the determined velocity. The method also includes determining a difference in phase for sound between two positions with respect to the lung.