Duke University
Purpose and Objectives: The main purpose is to test an ultrasound device that can assess the upper airway to create dynamic 4D imaging, which current technology cannot do. Ultrasound waves travel well within soft tissue but are unable to penetrate cartilage, bone, and air-filled structures, obscuring findings which are covered by these structures and limiting the ability of the ultrasound to adequately image posterior to the soft tissue upper airway, trachea, or behind the mandible.
Ultrasound has been used clinically for over 50 years and it is now the most common imaging method for cardiac and abdominal imaging in the world. Ultrasound system development using phased array techniques began at Duke almost 45 years ago with Duke system, referred to as T1: the T standing for Thaumascan, an early name for the Duke system. Virtually all current ultrasound scanners in the world today use the same basic phased array technology pioneered at Duke using the T1 (and its progeny) device(s). This family of ultrasound systems has been developed in the Department of Biomedical Enginee…
Inclusion Criteria: * Capable of lying stationary in a supine position for the duration of the stud Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnancy
Simple ultrasonography imaging
Arctuva estimate
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