Use of acousto-optical and sonoluminescene contrast agents
AssigneeAmersham Health AS
InventorsPaul Mark Henrichs, Henry Raphael Wolfe
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Abstract
The invention relates inter alia to a method of generating information from an animate human or non-human animal body which method comprises: administering to said body a physiologically tolerable material capable of absorbing, scattering or emitting light at a wavelength in the range 300 to 1300 nm; subjecting at least a portion of said body to ultrasound irradiation; detecting light in the wavelength range 300 to 1300 nm from said portion of said body; and manipulating the detected light to generate said information.
Claims4
An acousto-optical method of generating information from an animate human or non-human animal body which method comprises:
- administering to said body a physiologically tolerable material capable of absorbing, scattering or emitting light at a wavelength in the range 300 to 1300 nm;
- subjecting at least a portion of said body to ultrasound irradiation;
- if the said material is not sonoluminescent, subjecting at least said portion of said body to light in the wavelength range 300 to 1300 nm;
- detecting light in the wavelength range 300 to 1300 nm from said portion of said body, wherein said detected light carries a record of the interaction of the ultrasound on said body;
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- manipulating the detected light to generate said information.
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