Wearable/man-portable electromagnetic tomographic imaging
AssigneeEMTensor GmbH
InventorSerguei Y Semenov
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Abstract
A system for wearable/man-portable electromagnetic tomographic imaging includes a wearable/man-portable boundary apparatus adapted to receive a biological object within, a position determination system, electromagnetic transmitting/receiving hardware, and a hub computer system. The electromagnetic transmitting/receiving hardware collectively generates an electromagnetic field that passes into the boundary apparatus and receives the electromagnetic field after being scattered/interferenced by the biological object within. The hub computer system performs electromagnetic tomographic imaging based on the received electromagnetic field.
Claims30
A method of electromagnetic tomographically imaging a live human body part using a wearable boundary apparatus, comprising:
- installing a wearable and portable boundary apparatus such that the apparatus is worn around a body part by a live human while the human moves from one place to another, the wearable and portable boundary apparatus being a hollow structure whose walls include a plurality of electromagnetic windows;
- determining position information pertaining to the wearable boundary apparatus with respect to an external frame of reference;
- generating an electromagnetic field, externally with reference to the wearable boundary apparatus, that passes into and out of the wearable boundary apparatus through the electromagnetic windows;
- independently opening or closing the electromagnetic windows to control whether the electromagnetic field passes therethrough, wherein the step of independently opening or closing the electromagnetic windows is carried out via a respective microgate for each electromagnetic window;
- receiving the electromagnetic field after being scattered/interferenced by the live human body part;
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- generating electromagnetic tomographic images based upon the generated and received electromagnetic field, upon the determined position information, and incorporating information about a spatial location of each of the plurality of electromagnetic windows.
A method of electromagnetic tomographically imaging a live human body part using a wearable boundary apparatus, comprising:
- on a live human, installing a wearable boundary apparatus whose walls include a plurality of electromagnetic windows;
- determining position information pertaining to the wearable boundary apparatus with respect to an external frame of reference;
- via a respective microgate for each electromagnetic window, independently opening or closing an electromagnetic windows to control whether the electromagnetic field passes therethrough;
- generating the electromagnetic field, externally with reference to the wearable boundary apparatus, that passes into and out of the wearable boundary apparatus through one or more of the open electromagnetic windows;
- receiving the electromagnetic field after being scattered/interferenced by the live human body part;
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- generating electromagnetic tomographic images based upon the generated and received electromagnetic field, the determined position information, and spatial location information for each of the open electromagnetic windows.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.