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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015

Filed:

Jul. 27, 2012
Applicants:

Osama M. Mukdadi, Morgantown, WV (US);

Ahmed M. Mahmoud, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Eros S. Chaves, Morgantown, WV (US);

Richard Crout, Morgantown, WV (US);

Inventors:

Osama M. Mukdadi, Morgantown, WV (US);

Ahmed M. Mahmoud, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Eros S. Chaves, Morgantown, WV (US);

Richard Crout, Morgantown, WV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06F 19/321 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments for echoperiodontal imaging. In one embodiment, a system includes a transducer configured to transmit a series of ultrasonic signals at a plurality of corresponding locations along soft tissue of a jaw and receive a plurality of echo signals; and an imaging system controller configured to obtain a plurality of echo signal data of the soft tissue and a plurality of transducer positions, where each echo signal data corresponds to one of the plurality of transducer position.


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