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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2009
Applicants:
Daniel Razansky, München, DE;
Vasilis Ntziachristos, München, DE;
Amir Rosenthal, Haifa, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/17 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0095 (2013.01); A61B 5/0093 (2013.01); G01N 21/1702 (2013.01); A61B 5/0059 (2013.01); G01N 21/17 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of thermoacoustic imaging of an object includes providing thermoacoustic signals representing a mechanical wave response to a delivery of electromagnetic energy into the imaged object, reconstructing an energy deposition image representing a local energy absorption within the object based on the thermoacoustic signals, and decomposing the energy deposition image into a quantitative absorption image representing a distribution of a local absorption coefficient in the object and at least one further image component.