Inventor
GREENLEAF JAMES F
US37 patents
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MAYO FOUNDATION
14 patentsUS5921928AJul 13, 1999
Acoustic force generation by amplitude modulating a sonic beam
MAYO FOUNDATION110 citations96
US5903516AMay 11, 1999
Acoustic force generator for detection, imaging and information transmission using the beat signal of multiple intersecting sonic beams
MAYO FOUNDATION112 citations96
US5720708AFeb 24, 1998
High frame rate imaging with limited diffraction beams
MAYO FOUNDATION110 citations96
US6511429B1Jan 28, 2003
Ultrasonic methods and systems for reducing fetal stimulation
MAYO FOUNDATION52 citations95
US5991239ANov 23, 1999
Confocal acoustic force generator
MAYO FOUNDATION75 citations94
US5081995AJan 21, 1992
Ultrasonic nondiffracting transducer
MAYO FOUNDATION29 citations91
US7713201B2May 11, 2010
Method and apparatus for shear property characterization from resonance induced by oscillatory radiation force
MAYO FOUNDATION11 citations84
US7987718B2Aug 2, 2011
Vibroacoustic system for vibration testing
MAYO FOUNDATION14 citations83
US5185574AFeb 9, 1993
NMR measurements using recursive RF excitation
MAYO FOUNDATION14 citations74
US9237878B2Jan 19, 2016
Generation and assessment of shear waves in elasticity imaging
MAYO FOUNDATION3 citations72
US4829430AMay 9, 1989
Method for reducing artifacts in ultrasound backscatter tomography
MAYO FOUNDATION8 citations72
US9642600B2May 9, 2017
Shear wave attenuation from k-space analysis system
MAYO FOUNDATION2 citations70
US9622711B2Apr 18, 2017
System and method for measurement of shear wave speed from multi-directional wave fields
MAYO FOUNDATION6 citations70
US9125615B2Sep 8, 2015
System and method for non-invasive measurement of carpal tunnel pressure
MAYO FOUNDATION2 citations60
MAYO FOUND MEDICAL EDUCATION & RES
10 patentsUS11672508B2Jun 13, 2023
System and method for shear wave elastography by transmitting ultrasound with subgroups of ultrasound transducer elements
MAYO FOUND MEDICAL EDUCATION & RES2 citations73
US11058398B2Jul 13, 2021
System and method for shear wave elastography by transmitting ultrasound with subgroups of ultrasound transducer elements
MAYO FOUND MEDICAL EDUCATION & RES0 citations62
US11224409B2Jan 18, 2022
Shear wave group velocity estimation using spatiotemporal peaks and amplitude thresholding
MAYO FOUND MEDICAL EDUCATION & RES1 citations61
US12352855B2Jul 8, 2025
Time-aligned plane wave compounding of ultrasound data
MAYO FOUND MEDICAL EDUCATION & RES0 citations56
US9918698B2Mar 20, 2018
System and method for gradient-based k-space search for shear wave velocity dispersion estimation
MAYO FOUND MEDICAL EDUCATION & RES0 citations51
US12023199B2Jul 2, 2024
Systems and methods for ultrasound elastography with continuous transducer vibration
MAYO FOUND MEDICAL EDUCATION & RES0 citations50
US11644440B2May 9, 2023
Shear wave elastography with ultrasound probe oscillation
MAYO FOUND MEDICAL EDUCATION & RES0 citations50
US12478347B2Nov 25, 2025
Non-metallic ultrasound-detectable markers
MAYO FOUND MEDICAL EDUCATION & RES0 citations49
US12372647B2Jul 29, 2025
Systems and methods for plane wave compounding in ultrasound imaging
MAYO FOUND MEDICAL EDUCATION & RES0 citations44
US10327737B2Jun 25, 2019
System and method for acoustic radiation force creep-recovery and shear wave propagation elasticity imaging
MAYO FOUND MEDICAL EDUCATION & RES0 citations35
GREENLEAF JAMES F
6 patentsUS4598973AJul 8, 1986
Apparatus and method for recording and displaying a three-dimensional image
GREENLEAF JAMES F21 citations81
US11172910B2Nov 16, 2021
Ultrasound vibrometry with unfocused ultrasound
GREENLEAF JAMES F4 citations72
US10624609B2Apr 21, 2020
System and method for shear wave elastography by transmitting ultrasound with subgroups of ultrasound transducer elements
GREENLEAF JAMES F1 citations72
US8734350B2May 27, 2014
System and method for correcting errors in shear wave measurements arising from ultrasound beam geometry
GREENLEAF JAMES F5 citations72
US8659975B2Feb 25, 2014
Vibration generation and detection in shear wave dispersion ultrasound vibrometry with large background motions
GREENLEAF JAMES F2 citations61
US9044192B2Jun 2, 2015
System and method for non-invasively measuring tissue viscoelasticity using surface waves
GREENLEAF JAMES F1 citations44