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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2000
Walter Arnold, Saarbrucken, DE;
Andrzej Kulik, Chavannes, CH;
Other;
Abstract
An ultrasonic microscope for acquiring data from internal regions of a sample body is provided. The ultrasonic microscope includes an ultrasonic transmitter for providing a point source of ultrasonic waves for input-coupling into a sample body at a point in proportion to the dimensions of the sample body. Ultrasonically-induced excursions of a receiving tip can be detected with atomic resolution by using an ultrasonic detector that measures with high sensitivity resolution. The ultrasonic transmitter and the ultrasonic detector may be positioned relative to one another such that the ultrasonic detector can adopt several receiving positions for each transmitting position of the ultrasonic transmitter. A measurement data signal from the ultrasonic detector is stored and processed in a central processor. An image generator within the central processor uses a tomographic algorithm to reconstruct an image of at least one area inside the sample body from the measurement data.