Patent ID: 11911208
Assignee: THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 0:
1. A method for diagnosing an injury, the method comprising:
applying, from a single vibration device, one beam of vibration waves to an area near an injury to create a sloshing motion in any fluid within the area near the injury wherein the sloshing motion leads to greater movement than vibration waves inhomogeneous tissue located in that area;
applying, from an ultrasound device, an ultrasound beam to an area of the injury;
generating, via processing circuitry of the ultrasound device and based on signals created from reflections of the ultrasound beam generated by the ultrasound device, image data of the area of the injury reflects movement of any fluid relative to the homogeneous tissue;
processing, via the processing circuitry, the image data;
providing a diagnosis of the injury based on a result of the processing; and
generating an alert when the diagnosis identifies an abnormality caused by the injury at the area of the injury, wherein the abnormality includes at least one of internal bleeding, hemothorax, pneumothorax, edema, exudate, or pericardial effusion, and
wherein vibration waves produced by the vibration device cross with the ultrasound beam generated by the ultrasound device to lead to improved detection of any fluid within the area near the injury relative to an interface between the fluid and the homogeneous tissue.