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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2020
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC (US);
Jaepyeong Cha, Washington, DC (US);
Bo Ning, Washington, DC (US);
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to non-invasive nerve identification using snapshot polarimetry. The present disclosure further relates to a system for nerve identification, the system comprising a camera including a sensor, and a filter having a linear polarizer array, an illumination system configured to illuminate a target area with polarized light illumination, the polarized light illumination having at least one predetermined polarization angle, the illumination system including one more light sources, and one or more polarizer filters, and a processor configured to process imaging data obtained from the camera, and output a birefringence map of the target area including indicia of a nerve structure.