Overcoming acoustic field and skull non-uniformities
US11103731B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 12, 2017 |
| Grant date | Aug 31, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 8, 2039 |
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- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61N2007/0095
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Various approaches for heating a target region substantially uniformly include identifying one or more locations of one or more hot spots in the target region and/or surrounding regions of the target region during an ultrasound sonication process; computing a temporal variation to an output parameter of at least one of the transducer elements based at least in part on the identified location(s) of the hot spot(s); and operating the at least one transducer element to achieve the temporal variation of the output parameter so as to minimize the hot spot(s).
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