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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6673014 | Noninvasive methods and apparatuses for measuring the intraocular pressure of a mammal eye Noninvasive methods and apparatuses measuring the intraocular pressure (IOP) of the eye using vibratory excitation are disclosed. Prior art methods teaches that the natural frequencies of the eye vary as a function of the IOP, with each natural frequency ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6623418 | Radiation source A miniaturized radiation device, having a support member in the form of a flexible sheet, and a circuit pattern of electrical contact pads and interconnecting conductor lines or leads provided on said support member. The pads are interconnected via said p... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6601021 | System and method for analyzing eyetracker data Methods and Systems for analyzing data of a user viewing a display of dynamic hypermedia pages through a browser including monitoring and storing location and time of the user's gaze as eyetracker data, processing the eyetracker data into fixation data, m... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6594607 | Medical screening apparatus and method A medical screening apparatus and method includes a housing containing a user interface, an automatic medical test apparatus and a transmitting means for communicating the output of the medical test apparatus to a remote site for analysis. In one aspect, ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6579235 | Method for monitoring intraocular pressure using a passive intraocular pressure sensor and patient worn monitoring recorder A device for passively measuring intraocular pressure of a patient including an in vivo sensor and an instrument external to the patient for remotely energizing the sensor, thereby permitting the instrument to determine the intraocular pressure. The devic... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6471647 | Method of operating tonometer An applanation tonometer with a replaceable prism for contacting a cornea has emitter and detector ports arranged opposite each other on opposite sides of a longitudinal axis, with the ports aimed at about 45° to the longitudinal axis. Light from an emit... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6423001 | Method and apparatus for signal transmission and detection using a contact device Utilization of a contact device placed on the front part of the eye in order to detect physical and chemical parameters of the body as well as the non-invasive delivery of compounds according to these physical and chemical parameters, with signals prefera... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6314380 | Ultrasound transducer temperature compensation methods, apparatus and programs Method, apparatus and computer programs are described for compensating for the effect of temperature on the sensitivity of electrostatic ultrasound (US) transducers, particularly as used in an automotive occupancy sensing (AOS) systems for sensing the nat... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6231523 | Pain information detecting device A cuff (200), having a blood shutting bag (210) and a detection bag (220), is attached to an upper arm of a patient and a main device unit (100) is made to operate. A CPU (130) performs the measurement operation in accordance with a program inside a memor... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6213943 | Apparatus for signal transmission and detection using a contact device for physical measurement on the eye Utilization of a contact device placed on the front part of the eye in order to detect physical and chemical parameters of the body as well as the non-invasive delivery of compounds according to these physical and chemical parameters, with signals prefera... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6179779 | Replaceable prism system for applanation tonometer An applanation tonometer with a replaceable prism for contacting a cornea has emitter and detector ports arranged opposite each other on opposite sides of a longitudinal axis, with the ports aimed at about 45 ° to the longitudinal axis. Light from an emi... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6123668 | Method and apparatus for signal transmission and detection using a contact device Utilization of a contact device placed on the front part of the eye in order to detect physical and chemical parameters of the body as well as the non-invasive delivery of compounds according to these physical and chemical parameters, with signals prefera... | 09/26/2000 |
| 5830139 | Tonometer system for measuring intraocular pressure by applanation and/or indentation A tonometer system for measuring intraocular pressure by accurately providing a predetermined amount of applanation to the cornea and detecting the amount of force required to achieve the predetermined amount of applanation. The system is also capable of ... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5797397 | Ultrasound imaging system and method using intensity highlighting to facilitate tissue differentiation An ultrasound imaging system generates an ultrasound image that represents ultrasound intensity as a function of position within an object, such as a patient's body. An ultrasound intensity range of interest is selected, and one or more areas of the ultra... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5640956 | Methods and apparatus for correlating ultrasonic image data and radiographic image data Apparatus and methods are provided for correlating radiologic and ultrasonic images of biological tissue. An X-ray image and a plurality of corresponding ultrasound images are generated while the biological tissue remains immobilized. X-ray opaque indexin... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5148807 | Non-contact tonometer A non-contact, non-invasive tonometer utilizing the technique of angle modulation of high frequency sound waves or high frequency light waves to determine the intraocular pressure of an eye. The angle modulation technique can be either frequency modulatio... | 09/22/1992 |
| 4945913 | Single chamber acoustical tonometer The compliance of human tissue is determined by impinging a target area with acoustical energy over a range of frequencies. The target is dynamically sealed within a chamber and the pressure response produced in the chamber over the frequency range is mea... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4281662 | Ocular testing device A method for diagnosing unilateral internal carotid occlusive disease comprises the application of a vacuum to a patient's left and right eyes and the automatic storage of the negative-pressure magnitudes at which diastolic and systolic pressures of the l... | 08/04/1981 |
