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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2007
Applicants:
Unmin Bae, Seattle, WA (US);
Yongmin Kim, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
Vijay Shamdasani, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Unmin Bae, Seattle, WA (US);
Yongmin Kim, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
Vijay Shamdasani, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
University of Washington, Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An in vivo source of compression is used to cause a bodily structure of interest to expand and contract. Ultrasound signals are incident and their echoes are processed by a strain processor. Resulting strain images are freed from noise caused by external sources of compression. A tissue stiffness index is calculated to obtain quantitative measure of stiffness.