Patent ID: 9414763
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. A method of electromagnetic tomographically imaging a live human body part using a wearable boundary apparatus, comprising: installing a wearable and portable boundary apparatus such that the apparatus is worn around the live human body part by a live human while the human moves from one place to another, the wearable and portable boundary apparatus being a hollow structure having walls that include a plurality of electromagnetic windows; providing transmitting/receiving hardware that is outside of, physically separate from, and spaced apart from, the boundary apparatus; determining position information pertaining to the wearable boundary apparatus with respect to an external frame of reference, wherein the external frame of reference includes a location of the transmitting/receiving hardware or the location of the transmitting/receiving hardware is established relative to the external frame of reference; with the transmitting/receiving hardware, generating an electromagnetic field that passes into and out of the wearable boundary apparatus through the electromagnetic windows, wherein the walls of the hollow structure define the boundaries of an imaging domain and are made at least partly of a material that is non-transparent with respect to the generated electromagnetic field; receiving the electromagnetic field after being scattered/interferenced by the live human body part; and generating electromagnetic tomographic images of the live human body part based upon the generated and received electromagnetic field, the determined position information, and spatial location information for each of the electromagnetic windows; wherein the spatial location information for each of the electromagnetic windows is defined with respect to the boundary apparatus, the external frame of reference, and/or the transmitting/receiving hardware.