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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020

Filed:

Feb. 02, 2015
Applicant:

The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);

Inventors:

Zongxi Li, Cambridge, MA (US);

Conor L. Evans, Charlestown, MA (US);

Alexander J. Nichols, Cambridge, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/1455 (2006.01); A61B 5/1477 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/14556 (2013.01); A61B 5/1477 (2013.01); A61B 5/7475 (2013.01); A61F 13/00004 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a system A system, including a light source, a detector, and a controller in electrical communication with the light source and the detector. The controller is configured to execute a program stored in the controller to trigger the light source to emit a first pulse of light having a first pulse duration for illumination of a target, actuate the detector after a first delay time following emission of the first pulse of light to begin detecting a first signal from the target for a first detection time, and repeat the steps of triggering the light source and actuating the detector at least once, varying for each repetition at least one of the first pulse duration, the first delay time, and the first detection time.


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