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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2008
Applicants:
Kenneth Hoyt, Rochester, NY (US);
Kevin J. Parker, Rochester, NY (US);
Inventors:
Kenneth Hoyt, Rochester, NY (US);
Kevin J. Parker, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Vibration sources are applied to a body or other object to image a region of interest. The mechanical vibrations introduced by the sources interfere in the region of interest to produce a crawling wave, which is detected by an ultrasound probe A relationship between crawling wave phase derivatives and local shear wave velocity is derived with phase derivatives estimated using either one-dimensional (1D) or two-dimensional (2D) autocorrelation-based techniques to image the region of interest.