Patent ID: 9730673
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01B,G01N

Claim:
1. A method for reconstructing a geometry of a surface of an object via echographic probing using an ultrasound probe including a plurality of N transducers, the method comprising: controlling the N transducers to transmit, towards the surface of the object, N ultrasound waves having N initial transmission delays in relation to one another; executing at least once a cycle of operations including: until obtaining after the at least one cycle of operations a wavefront received simultaneously on the surface; receiving from the N transducers N final measurement signals resulting from reflection of a wavefront received simultaneously on the surface of the object; determining N specular travel times, each corresponding to a minimum time taken by a signal transmitted by a transducer to return to the same transducer in a form of an echo following a reflection against the surface of the object, between each transducer and the surface of the object based on the N final measurement signals and the N corrected transmission delays; and performing geometric reconstitution of the surface of the object based on the N determined specular travel times.