Noninvasive detection of human brain conditions and anomalies

A method for non-invasive detection of abnormal cranial conditions, the method comprising:

• providing an array of accelerometers comprising four accelerometers, and a processing system connected to said four accelerometers;
• engaging the array of accelerometers with a head of a patient externally such that the four accelerometers contact four different positions of the patients head;
• using the four accelerometers to measure acceleration of the patient's head at said four different positions resulting from displacement of the patient's skull at said four different positions caused by heartbeat-induced pulsing of blood into cranial vasculature;
• generating signal data responsive to said acceleration of the patients head said four different positions resulting from displacement of the patient's skull at said four different positions caused by heartbeat-induced pulsing of blood into cranial vasculature;
• receiving said signal data at said processing system simultaneously;
• analyzing said signal data in parallel with said processing system and performing in-phase and phase-shifted correlation of said signal data;
• matching said signal data with known signal data of abnormal cranial conditions to thereby detect abnormal cranial conditions of the patient non-invasively;
• and
• generating a display indicative of said abnormal cranial conditions of the patient.

A system for non-invasive detection of abnormal cranial conditions, the system comprising:

• an array of accelerometers comprising four accelerometers;
• wherein the array of accelerometers is configured to engage with a head of a patient externally such that the four accelerometers contact four different positions on the patient's head;
• wherein said four accelerometers are configured to measure acceleration of the patients head at four different positions, and generate signal data responsive to said acceleration of the patients head said four different positions resulting from displacement of the patients skull at said four different positions caused by heartbeat-induced pulsing of blood into cranial vasculature;
• a processing system connected to said four accelerometers, wherein said processing system is configured to,
• receive simultaneously from said four accelerometers said signal data responsive to said acceleration of the patients head at said four different positions resulting from displacement of the patients skull at said four different positions caused by heartbeat-induced pulsing of blood into cranial vasculature;
• analyze said signal data in parallel and perform in-phase and phase-shifted correlation of said signal data, and
• match said signal data with known signal data of abnormal cranial conditions to thereby detect abnormal cranial conditions of the patient non-invasively;
• and
• an image database configured to generate a display indicative of said abnormal cranial conditions of the patient.