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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tomy Varghese, Madison, WI (US);
Christian S. Breburda, Madison, WI (US);
James A. Zagzebski, Madison, WI (US);
Peter Samuel Rahko, Verona, WI (US);
Assignee:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/06 ;
Abstract
Elastographic imaging of heart tissue may be used to provide strain images by mapping strain magnitude to brightness and strain sign to hue and thus provide improved clinical indication of compression and distension of heart muscle. An areal cursor may be used to obtain quantitative measurements of strain at predetermined periods in the heart cycle. Multiple area measurements of strain may be combined to provide a quantitative index of cardiac health.