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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2009
Applicants:
Lihong Wang, Creve Coeur, MO (US);
Konstantin Maslov, Affton, MO (US);
Inventors:
Lihong Wang, Creve Coeur, MO (US);
Konstantin Maslov, Affton, MO (US);
Assignee:
Washington University, St. Louis, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/24 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/1455 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/06 (2006.01); G01N 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/2418 (2013.01); A61B 5/0059 (2013.01); A61B 5/0095 (2013.01); A61B 5/14552 (2013.01); A61B 5/415 (2013.01); A61B 5/418 (2013.01); A61B 5/4866 (2013.01); A61B 8/00 (2013.01); A61B 8/06 (2013.01); A61B 8/4444 (2013.01); G01N 29/0672 (2013.01); G01N 2291/02475 (2013.01); G01N 2291/0427 (2013.01);
Abstract
Noninvasively imaging biological tissue using a handheld device. A light pulse is focused into a predetermined area inside an object using a flexibly mounted cantilever beam, acoustic waves emitted by the object in response to the at least one light pulse are detected by a transducer, and an image of the predetermined area inside the object is generated based on a signal generated by the transducer representative of the acoustic waves.