Patent ID: 9414764
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. A system for wearable/man-portable electromagnetic tomographic imaging, comprising: a wearable/man-portable boundary apparatus, adapted to receive a biological object within, the wearable and portable boundary apparatus being a hollow structure having walls that include a plurality of electromagnetic windows that are each independently opened or closed via a respective microgate; electromagnetic transmitting/receiving hardware collectively configured to generate an electromagnetic field that passes into the boundary apparatus through the open electromagnetic window or windows and receives the electromagnetic field passing out of the open electromagnetic window or windows after being scattered/interferenced by the biological object within, 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; a position determination system configured to determine position information pertaining to the wearable/man-portable 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; a hub computer system configured to perform electromagnetic tomographic imaging based upon the generated and received electromagnetic field, upon position information from the position determination system, and upon spatial location information for each of the open 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.