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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
May. 11, 2020
Applicant:
Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited, Haifa, IL;
Inventors:
Dvir Yelin, Haifa, IL;
Lior Golan, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/02 (2006.01); A61B 5/145 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/489 (2013.01); A61B 5/0066 (2013.01); A61B 5/0075 (2013.01); A61B 5/02007 (2013.01); A61B 5/0068 (2013.01); A61B 5/0084 (2013.01); A61B 5/14546 (2013.01); A61B 5/418 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for locating a vessel, the method comprising illuminating at least a portion of the vessel with a background light having a substantially high susceptibility to absorption by particles in said portion of the vessel; detecting backscattered light from said illuminated portion of the vessel; reproducing an image from said backscattered light; and identifying dark regions within said reproduced image.