Patent ID: 8337433

Claim:
A time-reversal mirroring electromagnetic acoustic treatment system, the system, comprising: an electromagnetic signal source configured to emit electromagnetic radiation toward a subject tissue area having a conductivity gradient; an array of acoustic transducers configured to collect acoustic signals generated in response to the electromagnetic radiation inducing an induced acoustic signal from the subject tissue area; a TRM controller communicatively coupled to the array of acoustic transducers and configured to (a) collect acoustic data representative of the induced acoustic signal received by the array of acoustic transducers, (b) derive a measured conductivity topology of the subject tissue area by mapping signal to noise properties of the acoustic data to properties of the conductivity topology without requiring significant contribution from a target tissue within the subject tissue area, and (c) generate emitter instructions for a time-reversed acoustic signal from the acoustic data as a function of the measured conductivity topology, the time-reversed acoustic signal targeting a the target tissue; and an array of acoustic emitters coupled to the TRM controller and configured to emit the time-reversed acoustic signal according to the emitter instructions toward the target tissue.