Medizinisches Laserzentrum Luebeck Gmbh

Merck Patent Gmbh

Heike Mueller

Ralf Brinkmann

Reginald Birngruber

Guenter Moddelmog

Thorsten Wedel

Gereon Huettmann

Jens Klatyk

Hans-Kurt Peth

Marianne Dohmen

Ralf Fiedler

A device for examining or treating living tissue by means of local heating of the tissue by absorbing electromagnetic radiation, with at least one radiation source emitting electromagnetic radiation, a control unit for controlling the irradiation parameters of the radiation source, and at least one FD-OCT apparatus with a light source emitting a measurement light for illuminating that tissue region in which the electromagnetic radiation is absorbed by the tissue, characterized by a computational unit for carrying out the following steps: determining the depth-resolved tissue velocity in the radiation direction of the measurement light at a predetermined measurement point of the tissue from the phase information from the FD-OCT interference light, integrating the established tissue velocity over time, differentiating the calculated time integral with respect to space, and displaying the spatial derivative as a function of space and time and/or feeding the spatial derivative as a function of space and time to an evaluation module and/or feeding the spatial derivative as a function of space and time to the control unit.

Device with an OCT system for examining and treating living tissue by means of heating of the tissue by absorbing electromagnetic radiation

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Hamburg, Germany

Heike Mueller