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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2017
Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Dublin, CA (US);
Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag, Jena, DE;
Matthew J. Everett, Livermore, CA (US);
Tilman Schmoll, Dublin, CA (US);
Nathan Shemonski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexandre R. Tumlinson, San Leandro, CA (US);
CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC., Dublin, CA (US);
CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG, Jena, DE;
Abstract
Various systems and methods for sequential angle illumination to achieve ultra-high resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. One example OCT system includes a light source, a beam divider, sample arm optics, a detector, and a processor. The light source generates a light beam to illuminate the sample. The beam divider separates the light beam into reference and sample arms. The sample arm optics sequentially illuminates a location in the sample with the light beam from different angles. The detector receives light returned from the reference arm and the sample illuminated at each angle and generates signals. The processor combines the signals to generate an image, which has a transverse resolution that is higher than the transverse resolution achieved from the signal generated from a single angle.