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US 12,343,210 · App. 18/588,967 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Determining material stiffness using multiple aperture ultrasound

Inventors: Donald F. Specht (Los Altos, CA); Kenneth D. Brewer (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee: Maui Imaging, Inc.
A61B8/485A61B8/145A61B8/4444A61B8/4477A61B8/4488A61B8/461A61B8/5207A61B8/5246G01S7/52022G01S7/52042G01S15/8915G01S15/8922G01S15/8929G01S15/8979G01S15/8993G01S15/8997G03B42/06A61B8/488G01S15/8959
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Patent No.
US 12,343,210
App. No.
18/588,967
Granted
Jul 1, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Changes in tissue stiffness have long been associated with disease. Systems and methods for determining the stiffness of tissues using ultrasonography may include a device for inducing a propagating shear wave in tissue and tracking the speed of propagation, which is directly related to tissue stiffness and density. The speed of a propagating shear wave may be detected by imaging a tissue at a high frame rate and detecting the propagating wave as a perturbance in successive image frames relative to a baseline image of the tissue in an undisturbed state. In some embodiments, sufficiently high frame rates may be achieved by using a ping-based ultrasound imaging technique in which unfocused omni-directional pings are transmitted (in an imaging plane or in a hemisphere) into a region of interest. Receiving echoes of the omnidirectional pings with multiple receive apertures allows for substantially improved lateral resolution.

Claims (21)

1. An ultrasound imaging system, comprising:

a multiple aperture ultrasound transducer array;

a shear-wave-initiating transducer; and

a processor configured to control the multiple aperture ultrasound transducer array to transmit a first circular waveform into a region of interest, receive echoes of the first circular waveform, and form a baseline image of the region of interest;

the processor being further configured to:

control the shear-wave-initiating transducer to transmit an ultrasonic pulse configured to induce a propagating shear wave in the region of interest;

control the multiple aperture ultrasound transducer array to transmit a second circular waveform into the region of interest, receive echoes of the second circular waveform, and form a first image frame that includes a first speckle pattern caused by the propagating shear wave as it moves through the region of interest;

control the multiple aperture ultrasound transducer array to transmit a third circular waveform into the region of interest, receive echoes of the third circular waveform, and form a second image frame that includes a second speckle pattern caused by the propagating shear wave as it moves through the region of interest;

subtract the baseline image from the first image frame to obtain a first difference frame;

subtract the baseline image from the second image frame with the electronic controller to obtain a second difference frame;

calculate a first distance between an init line of the multiple aperture ultrasound transducer array and the first speckle pattern of the first difference frame to determine a first position of the propagating shear wave;

calculate a second distance between the init line of the multiple aperture ultrasound transducer array and the second speckle pattern of the second difference frame to determine a second position of the propagating shear wave; and

calculate a propagation speed of the propagating shear wave in the region of interest from the first and second positions in the first and second difference frames.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to determine a first center line of the first speckle pattern, wherein the processor is further configured to calculate the first distance by calculating the first distance between the init line and the first center line to determine the first position of the propagating shear wave.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the processor is further configured to determine a second center line of the second speckle pattern, wherein the processor is further configured to calculate the second distance by calculating the second distance between the init line and the second center line to determine the second position of the propagating shear wave.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to calculate the propagation speed by dividing a distance traveled by the propagating shear wave between the first difference frame and the second difference frame by an elapsed time between the first difference frame and the second difference frame.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to calculate a tissue stiffness of the region of interest from the propagation speed.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the multiple aperture ultrasound transducer array is configured to transmit the circular waveforms from a first transmit aperture and receive echoes on a first receive aperture.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the multiple aperture ultrasound transducer array is configured to produce images at frame rate between 1,000 and 75,000 fps.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first difference frame and the second difference frame each contain substantially only noise and the first and second speckle patterns representing the propagating shear wave.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to determine that a first segment of the shear wave is propagating faster than adjacent segments of the shear wave, and further configured to calculate a first segment propagation speed of the first segment.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 29, 2024
From: SPECHT, DONALD F.; BREWER, KENNETH D.
To: MAUI IMAGING, INC.
Reel/Frame 069062/0640 →
Continuity (5)
Continuation 16897116 · Jun 9, 2020
Continuation 15155908 · May 16, 2016
Division 13773340 · Feb 21, 2013
Provisional Application 61601482 · Feb 21, 2012
Related Publication 20250032093A1 · Jan 30, 2025
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