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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2017
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary, Department of Health & Human Services, Rockville, MD (US);
02;the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Rockville, MD (US);
Jason D. Riley, Kingston, CA;
Franck Amyot, Washington, DC (US);
Amir H. Gandjbakhche, Potomac, MD (US);
James G. Smirniotopoulos, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Eric Wassermann, Rockville, MD (US);
Abstract
Featured are methods, apparatus and devices for detecting a hematoma in tissue of a patient. In one aspect, such a method includes emitting near infrared light continuously into the tissue from a non-stationary near infrared light emitter and continuously monitoring the tissue using a non-stationary probe so as to continuously detect reflected light. The near infrared light is emitted at two distances from a brain of the patient, so the emitted light penetrates to two different depths. Such a method also includes applying a ratiometric analysis to the reflected light to distinguish a border between normal tissue and tissue exhibiting blood accumulation.