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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2017
Applicant:
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Inventors:
Stephen A. Boppart, Champaign, IL (US);
Ryan L. Shelton, Champaign, IL (US);
Paritosh Pande, Richland, WA (US);
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/02 (2006.01); A61B 1/227 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61K 9/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/47 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/02091 (2013.01); A61B 1/227 (2013.01); A61B 5/0066 (2013.01); A61K 9/0046 (2013.01); G01B 9/02041 (2013.01); A61B 5/7257 (2013.01); G01N 21/4795 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for combining a low coherence interferometry (LCI) technique for single-point thickness measurement with videootoscopy for recording the image of a tissue such as the tympanic membrane (TM). TM thickness distribution maps are obtained by mapping the LCI imaging sites onto an anatomically accurate wide-field image of the TM, generated by mosaicking a sequence of multiple small field-of-view video-otoscopy images.