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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:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2011
Applicants:
Marie Tabaru, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Azuma, Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Yoshikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kunio Hashiba, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Marie Tabaru, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Azuma, Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Yoshikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kunio Hashiba, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2013.01); A61B 8/485 (2013.01); G01S 7/52049 (2013.01); A61B 8/0825 (2013.01); A61B 8/0891 (2013.01); G01S 7/52071 (2013.01); G01S 7/52073 (2013.01);
Abstract
When multiple tissues having differing speeds of sound are intermixed in the viewing field of a measured subject such as a living body, the invention measures hardness, such as modulus of elasticity or viscosity, with high precision.