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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2014
Applicant:
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, MN (US);
Inventors:
Mostafa Fatemi, Rochester, MN (US);
Ivan Z. Nenadic, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, MN (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/14 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/0858 (2013.01); A61B 8/485 (2013.01); A61B 8/5223 (2013.01);
Abstract
System and method for determining viscoelasticity of curved tissue walls using ultrasound bladder vibrometry (UBV). The UBV is a non-invasive technique utilizing, in a specific case, a focused ultrasound radiation force to excite Lamb waves in a curved bladder wall and pulse-echo techniques to track the tissue deformation propagating through such curved wall. Cross-spectral analysis is used to calculate the wave velocity, which is directly related to the elastic properties of the bladder wall.