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Method for measuring a physical parameter in soft tissues of a mammal, in which a mechanical shear wave is propagated through the soft tissues and observation of the propagation leads to determine values of a shear wave propagation parameter. The physical parameter is computed on the basis of these values.
摘要:
An imaging method using shear waves for observing a viscoelastic medium (2), comprising: several successive excitation steps j during which elastic shear waves are generated respectively at different excitation loci (L j ) in the viscoelastic medium (2) by an imaging device, the different excitation loci being separated from one another by a maximum distance Dm, - an imaging step corresponding to each excitation step j, in which a set j of successive raw images Im j (t k ) of the viscoelastic medium at times t k are determined during propagation of the shear wave, the raw images having a resolution R which is larger than the maximum distance Dm, an averaging step in which raw images Im j (t k ) corresponding to the same relative time t k are averaged to determine an average image Im' (t k ).
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A wave shaping device which comprises a tunable impedance surface and a controller connected to the surface in order to control its impedance. The shaping device further comprises a transmission module for receiving a pilot signal used to control the impedance of the surface.
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Method of high-resolution ultrasound imaging, in which transducers (T 1 -T n ) are made to emit ultrasound waves in a field of observations containing micro bubbles, by making the micro bubbles burst one by one in tandem with the emissions of ultrasound waves. At each shot j of an ultrasound wave, raw reverberated signals S j (i,t) picked up by each transducer i are recorded, and then differential signals V j (i,t) representative of variations between successive raw signals are determined, a parabolic function P j (x) is fitted to the differential signals corresponding to each shot j, and then a crest A j (x 0 ,y 0 ) of this function P j , corresponding to the position of the micro bubble destroyed between shots j-1 and j, is determined.
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Method for measuring heart contractility of a patient, in which a mechanical shear wave is propagated through the heart and observation of the propagation leads to determine a shear wave propagation parameter representative of the elasticity of the heart. The value of the propagation parameter at the end of a systole is sampled, which leads to a parameter representative of the end systolic elastance.