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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2012
Osama M. Mukdadi, Morgantown, WV (US);
Ahmed M. Mahmoud, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Eros S. Chaves, Morgantown, WV (US);
Richard Crout, Morgantown, WV (US);
Osama M. Mukdadi, Morgantown, WV (US);
Ahmed M. Mahmoud, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Eros S. Chaves, Morgantown, WV (US);
Richard Crout, Morgantown, WV (US);
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.