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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2009
Applicants:
Raffaella Righetti, Houston, TX (US);
Jonathan Ophir, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Raffaella Righetti, Houston, TX (US);
Jonathan Ophir, Austin, TX (US);
Assignees:
National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD (US);
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/04 (2006.01); G01N 29/50 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention is directed toward a new method for estimating and imaging the spatial and temporal mechanical behavior of materials in responses to a mechanical stimulus. This method is designed to work in inherently noisy applications, such as the imaging of the time-dependent mechanical behavior of biological tissues in vivo and using a preferred hand-held configuration of scanning.