Raymond D Yoder

US Patent:

20100222663, Sep 2, 2010

Filed:

Feb 26, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/713616

Inventors:

Steve Wilder - Ashland OH, US
David Theobold - Chapel Hill NC, US
Roger B. Fell - Avon Lake OH, US
Raymond Lloyd Yoder - Willoughby OH, US

Assignee:

PneumoSonics, Inc. - Cleveland OH

International Classification:

A61B 6/00
G01S 13/89

US Classification:

600407, 342 22

Abstract:

Provided is a micropower impulse radar (MIR) pneumothorax detector. The detector includes a processor and a handheld MIR scanner. The handheld MIR scanner includes a device housing, an antenna located within the device housing, circuitry that generates MIR signals, and circuitry that processes received echoes of the MIR signals and provides the processed received echoes to the processor. The processor automatically determines whether a pneumothorax is present based on the processed received echoes of the MIR signals.