US 12,138,118 B2
Multi-sensor brain detecting apparatus
Jean-Luc Gennisson, Paris (FR); Mickaël Tanter, Paris (FR); Thomas Deffieux, Paris (FR); and Mathieu Pernot, Paris (FR)
Assigned to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE (INSERM), Paris (FR); CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE—CNRS, Paris (FR); SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ, Paris (FR); UNIVERSITÉ PARIS CITÉ, Paris (FR); and ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE PHYSIQUE ET DE CHIMIE INDUSTRIELLES DE LA VILLE DE PARIS, Paris (FR)
Filed by INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE (INSERM), Paris (FR); CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, Paris (FR); SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ, Paris (FR); UNIVERSITÉ PARIS CITÉ, Paris (FR); and ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE PHYSIQUE ET DE CHIMIE INDUSTRIELLES DE LA VILLE DE PARIS, Paris (FR)
Filed on Oct. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/507,280.
Application 17/507,280 is a division of application No. 15/580,026, granted, now 11,234,677, previously published as PCT/EP2016/063196, filed on Jun. 9, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 15305889 (EP), filed on Jun. 10, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0039776 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 5/24 (2021.01); A61B 5/293 (2021.01); A61B 8/06 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/4416 (2013.01) [A61B 5/11 (2013.01); A61B 5/1118 (2013.01); A61B 5/24 (2021.01); A61B 5/293 (2021.01); A61B 8/06 (2013.01); A61B 8/0808 (2013.01); A61B 8/4209 (2013.01); A61B 8/481 (2013.01); A61B 8/488 (2013.01); A61B 2503/40 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0209 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0219 (2013.01); A61B 2562/066 (2013.01); A61B 2562/166 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
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1. A multi-sensor brain detecting apparatus, the detecting apparatus being adapted to obtain at least two different physical values of a brain of a subject, the detecting apparatus comprising:
a frame configured as attachable to the head of the subject at a fixed position with relation to the brain with stereotaxic precision, the frame comprising a perimeter region surrounding a plurality of compartments, each compartment positioned at a respective location relative to the perimeter region, among a plurality of locations; and
a set of sensors, including at least an ultrasound sensor adapted to produce ultrasound waves, at least one sensor of the set of sensors being configured as removably insertable into any of the compartments and correspondingly selectively positionable at any of the locations, by a user of the detecting apparatus without using a tool.