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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2004
Hemchandra Shertukde, Simsbury, CT (US);
Rekha Shertukde, Simsbury, CT (US);
Peter V. Beckmann, Hartford, CT (US);
Raymond Mclaughlin, Hartford, CT (US);
Hemchandra Shertukde, Simsbury, CT (US);
Rekha Shertukde, Simsbury, CT (US);
Peter V. Beckmann, Hartford, CT (US);
Raymond McLaughlin, Hartford, CT (US);
MedScanSonics, Inc., Vernon, CT (US);
Abstract
A non-invasive diagnostic tool and method for detecting an obstruction in a coronary artery, the diagnostic tool including a signal processor adapted to receive signals corresponding to a heart beat from a plurality of acoustic sensors attached to the chest of a patient. The signal processor is programmed to identify a diastolic portion of the signals for a plurality of heartbeats and conduct a wavelet transform analysis on the diastolic signals for determining the existence of, as well as the severity and the location of, an obstruction in a coronary artery of the patient.