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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2008
Jean-marie Parel, Miami Shores, FL (US);
Fabrice Manns, Coral Gables, FL (US);
David S. Robinson, Kansas City, MO (US);
Peter Milne, Miami, FL (US);
David B. Denham, Miami, FL (US);
Xochitl Gonzalez-cirre, Madrid, ES;
Jean-Marie Parel, Miami Shores, FL (US);
Fabrice Manns, Coral Gables, FL (US);
David S. Robinson, Kansas City, MO (US);
Peter Milne, Miami, FL (US);
David B. Denham, Miami, FL (US);
Xochitl Gonzalez-Cirre, Madrid, ES;
University of Miami, Miami, FL (US);
Abstract
A method of thermally inducing and monitoring changes to localized regions of tissue illuminating a volume of tissue with a first beam of X-rays, detecting the portions of the first beam of X-rays that passed through the volume of tissue, generating a first X-ray image signal from the portions of X10 rays of the first beam detected, applying heat to at least a localized region of tissue within the volume of tissue after the illuminating and after the detecting, illuminating the volume of tissue with a second beam of X-rays, detecting portions of the second beam of X-rays that passed through the volume of tissue during the illuminating with the second beam of X-rays, generating a second X-ray image signal from the portions of X-rays of the second beam detected, and generating a difference image signal based upon a comparison of the first and second X-ray image signals. The difference image signal provides information of changes in X-ray attenuation by localized regions of tissue within the volume of tissue due to the application of heat.