Patent ID: 8795181

Claim:
A system for generating a report indicating a subject's risk for developing a disorder of a carpal tunnel, the system comprising: an examination apparatus configured to control motion of the subject through a predetermined set of motions; an ultrasound transducer arranged proximate to the subject's carpel tunnel to acquire a time series of medical imaging data of a region of interest including at least a portion of the subject's carpel tunnel; and a processor configured to receive the time series of medial medical imaging data and having instructions configured to cause the processor to carry out the steps of: i) generating a time series of images from the time series of medial medical imaging data; ii) receiving an indication of anatomical features within the time series of medical images; iii) analyzing the time series of medical images to determine indicia of acoustic signals arising from coherent reflection of ultrasound waves generated by the transducer from predetermined features within the region of interest and track the determined indicia across the time series of medical images; iv) determining a pattern of motion of the determined indicia across the time series of medical images; v) generating a series of functional parameters characterizing pattern of motion of the determined indicia across the time series of medical images; and vi) using the series of functional parameters, generating a report indicating the subject's risk of developing at least one of carpel tunnel syndrome (CTS) and subsynovial connective tissue (SSCT) damage, wherein the anatomical features include a flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS) and the SSCT, and wherein step ii) includes receiving a plurality of markers placed on tendon tissue speckles of the FDS, perpendicular to a direction of tendon motion, with a distance between two furthest markers of one millimeter.