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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2012
Applicants:
Alexander Seth Ross, Albany, NY (US);
Jeffrey Michael Ashe, Gloversville, NY (US);
Inventors:
Alexander Seth Ross, Albany, NY (US);
Jeffrey Michael Ashe, Gloversville, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/053 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/053 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for transducer placement in soft-field tomography are provided. One system includes a plurality of transducers configured for positioning at a surface of an object in a non-soft-field tomography configuration. The system also includes an interface and a processor communicating with the plurality of transducers via the interface. The processor is configured to perform soft-field sensing using soft-field data acquired by the plurality of transducers.