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Ultrasonic medical device and associated method

  • US 20050020918A1
  • Filed: 09/16/2003
  • Published: 01/27/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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13. A medical method comprising:

  • providing a carrier holding a multiplicity of electromechanical transducers;

    placing said carrier and a patient adjacent to one another so that said transducers are disposed in effective pressure-wave-transmitting contact with the patient;

    supplying a first plurality of said transducers with electrical signals of at least one pre-established ultrasonic frequency to produce first pressure waves in the patient;

    receiving, via a second plurality of said transducers, second pressure waves produced at internal tissue structures of the patient in response to said first pressure waves; and

    performing electronic 3D volumetric data acquisition and imaging of said internal tissue structures by analyzing signals generated by said second plurality of said transducers in response to said second pressure waves, at least one of the supplying and receiving steps being executed to effectuate an electronic scanning of said internal tissue structures.

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