Ultrasonic lung tissue assessment

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1995-02-14

1996-01-23

Jaworski, Francis

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054858410

ABSTRACT:
A diagnostic method and apparatus for assessing lung tissue during breathing, transmits ultrasonic radiation into the lung tissue; reflected or echo radiation, is reflected dynamically by air spaces in the tissue; a signal is developed from the reflected or echo radiation as a dynamic real-time measure of parameters of the air spaces, particularly size and density or number, indicative of the state of the lung tissue.

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Wells, P. N. T., "Biomedical Ultrasonics", Academic Press N.Y. .COPYRGT.1977, pp. 304-305.

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