Measuring and testing – Vibration – By mechanical waves
Reexamination Certificate
2011-06-07
2011-06-07
Noland, Thomas P (Department: 2856)
Measuring and testing
Vibration
By mechanical waves
C073S614000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07954379
ABSTRACT:
The invention is directed toward a new method for estimating and imaging the spatial and temporal mechanical behavior of materials in responses to a mechanical stimulus. This method is designed to work in inherently noisy applications, such as the imaging of the time-dependent mechanical behavior of biological tissues in vivo and using a preferred hand-held configuration of scanning.
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