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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:
Jun. 02, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 10, 2016
Applicant:

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);

Inventors:

David W. Blodgett, Ellicott City, MD (US);

Mark A. Chevillet, Silver Spring, MD (US);

Scott M. Hendrickson, Baltimore, MD (US);

Michael P. McLoughlin, Sykesville, MD (US);

Assignee:

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G01B 9/02 (2006.01); G03H 1/00 (2006.01); G03H 1/04 (2006.01); G03H 1/26 (2006.01); G02B 27/10 (2006.01); G02B 5/30 (2006.01); G02F 2/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0066 (2013.01); A61B 5/0042 (2013.01); A61B 5/0073 (2013.01); A61B 5/0082 (2013.01); A61B 5/4064 (2013.01); G01B 9/0203 (2013.01); G01B 9/02011 (2013.01); G01B 9/02091 (2013.01); G03H 1/0005 (2013.01); G03H 1/0402 (2013.01); G03H 1/0443 (2013.01); G03H 1/0465 (2013.01); G03H 1/265 (2013.01); A61B 2576/026 (2013.01); G02B 5/3025 (2013.01); G02B 27/10 (2013.01); G02F 2/00 (2013.01); G03H 2001/0033 (2013.01); G03H 2001/0436 (2013.01); G03H 2001/0452 (2013.01); G03H 2001/0469 (2013.01); G03H 2222/20 (2013.01); G03H 2226/02 (2013.01); G03H 2226/13 (2013.01);
Abstract

Example apparatuses and methods relating to imaging systems are provided. An example imaging system may include an optical source configured to generate an optical beam, a beam splitter configured to split the optical beam into a reference beam and an object beam, and a beam combiner configured to route a combined beam with reference beam and object beam components along a common path into a target medium. In this regard, the target medium may act upon the combined beam to form a common path interference beam. The example imaging system may further include an imaging sensor configured to receive the common path interference beam and generate common path interference beam data associated with the common path interference beam, and an image data processor configured to analyze the common path interference beam data to generate image data describing the target medium.


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