Garment with ultrasonic imaging sensors
AssigneeIkko Health Ltd.
InventorsRamon Axelrod, Pinchas Chaviv, Michal Cohen Sfady
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Abstract
A garment has ultrasonic sensors placed on a patient's body, which solves problems associated with poor contact between the ultrasonic sensors and the portion to be imaged, by using feedback to improve contact and/or to eliminate transceivers with bad emission patterns.
Claims16
A system for improving ultrasonic transceivers skin contact using feedback from ultrasound sensors comprising:
- a plurality of ultrasound transceivers attached to a patient's skin;
- a software module analyzing the information of the acoustic emission signals, reflection and transmission data following the operation of each transducer at multiple ultrasound frequencies;
- a software module analyzing and comparing the reflection patterns received from adjacent parts of the same transceivers;
- a classification system analyzing the acoustic signals for each transceiver and evaluating the quality of the skin contact;
- a real time visual reference of the device presenting the quality of the acoustic transmitted and or reflected signals for each transceiver;
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- a guidance for the user or an automatic system to adjust the adherence of specific areas or specific transceivers and prior to re-evaluate the skin contact.
A method of evaluation of transceiver skin ultrasonic contact quality by receiving ultrasonic signal feedback comprising of reflection waveform and transmission waveform from plurality of transceivers and performing analysis of the acoustic input to classify the ultrasonic contact quality.
A method of improving transceiver skin ultrasonic contact quality using ultrasonic feedback analysis and adjusting the adherence of specific transceiver/s with “low quality contact”, said “low quality contact” transceiver/s lack to show local reflection to the transmitter area, and show transmission in some or all lower frequencies on sensors not located at the emitter location.
A method of improving ultrasonic imaging processing/ultrasound inversion processing quality using ultrasonic feedback analysis and eliminating the transceiver/s that show significantly different reflection patterns in different adjacent areas of the same CMUT transmitter area.
A method of improving ultrasonic imaging processing/ultrasound inversion processing by feedback analysis and eliminating the use of transceivers that show no skin contact.
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