Patent ID: 7993271
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A tissue screening system, comprising: an ultrasonic wave producer that produces a first ultrasonic wave directed at a tissue to be screened; an ultrasonic wave receiver receiving a second ultrasonic wave produced as a function of the first ultrasonic wave interacting with the tissue; an analyzer operably connected to at least one of the ultrasonic wave producer and the ultrasonic wave receiver, the analyzer identifying whether the tissue is diseased tissue based on microstructural and micromechanical properties of the tissue, as compared to microstructural and micromechanical properties of normal tissue, from analysis of the second ultrasonic wave; and a tissue mechanical properties model, based on nanomechanics, in data communication with the analyzer, the tissue mechanical properties model processing information associated with the microstructural and micromechanical properties of normal and abnormal tissues from the second ultrasonic wave.