Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hand-held device for electrical impedance myography
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Application No.: US15961714Application Date: 2018-04-24
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Publication No.: US11589766B2Publication Date: 2023-02-28
- Inventor: Seward B. Rutkove , Joel L. Dawson
- Applicant: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Boston
- Assignee: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Boston
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Main IPC: A61B5/053
- IPC: A61B5/053 ; A61B5/00 ; A61B5/0536 ; A61B5/0537

Abstract:
A device for determining muscle condition of a region of tissue. The device comprises an electrical impedance myography (EIM) portable probe bearing an electrode array. The electrode array comprises excitation electrodes used to apply multi-frequency electrical signals to the region of tissue and pickup electrodes that are used to collect electrical signals resulting from the application of the multi-frequency electrical signals to the region of tissue. To improve accuracy and reproducibility of EIM measurements, the electrode array is reconfigurable to select different subsets of excitation and pickup electrodes so that the electrodes are oriented differently with respect to muscle fibers. Additional devices may be associated with the EIM probe to measure such parameters as temperature, moisture content of the region, quality of contact of electrodes of the electrode array with a surface of the region and pressure with which the EIM probe is applied to the region. The EIM measurements may be adjusted based on these parameters. Also, ultrasound and electrical impedance tomography measurements may supplement the EIM measurements for more complete analysis of the muscle condition.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190069801A1 HAND-HELD DEVICE FOR ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE MYOGRAPHY Public/Granted day:2019-03-07
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