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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2002
Nebojsa Duric, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Peter J. Littrup, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Earle Holsapple, Iii, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI (US);
Robert Henry Barter, Oakland, CA (US);
Thomas L Moore, Livermore, CA (US);
Stephen G. Azevedo, Livermore, CA (US);
Sidney W. Ferguson, Livermore, CA (US);
Nebojsa Duric, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Peter J. Littrup, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Earle Holsapple, III, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI (US);
Robert Henry Barter, Oakland, CA (US);
Thomas L Moore, Livermore, CA (US);
Stephen G. Azevedo, Livermore, CA (US);
Sidney W. Ferguson, Livermore, CA (US);
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A method and system for examining tissue are provided in which the tissue is maintained in a position so that it may be insonified with a plurality of pulsed spherical or cylindrical acoustic waves. The insonifying acoustic waves are scattered by the tissue so that scattered acoustic radiation including a mix of reflected and transmitted acoustic waves is received. A representation of a portion of the tissue is then derived from the received scattered acoustic radiation.