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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2014
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Qifa Zhou, Arcadia, CA (US);
Xiang Li, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Jacques Van Dam, Los Angeles, CA (US);
K. Kirk Shung, Monterey Park, CA (US);
Thomas Cummins, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Zhongping Chen, Irvine, CA (US);
Jiawen Li, Irvine, CA (US);
Teng Ma, Los Angeles, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A multimodality imaging system including ultrasound, optical coherence tomography (OCT), photoacoustic (PA) imaging, florescence imaging and endoscopic catheter for imaging inside the gastrointestinal tract with real-time automatic image co-registration capability, including: an ultrasound subsystem for imaging; an optical coherence tomography (OCT) subsystem for imaging, a PA microscopy or tomography subsystem for imaging and a florescence imaging subsystem for imaging. An invasive interventional imaging device is included with an instrumentality to take a tissue biopsy from a location visible on the ultrasound subsystem for imaging, on the optical coherence tomography (OCT) subsystem for imaging, photoacoustic (PA) subsystem for imaging and florescence subsystem for imaging. The instrumentality takes a tissue biopsy from a visible location simultaneously with the visualization of the tissue about to be biopsied so that the tissue biopsy location is visualized before, during and after the biopsy.