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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2024
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Hao F. Zhang, Evanston, IL (US);
Cheng Sun, Evanston, IL (US);
Tingwei Zhang, Evanston, IL (US);
Roman V. Kuranov, Evanston, IL (US);
David Andrew Miller, Evanston, IL (US);
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a new visible light swept source that enables ultrafast visible light OCT to operate at a faster rate to reduce the motion artifacts and increase the field of view without sacrificing image quality. The new visible light swept source further provides for improved roll-off performance and mitigation of influence of RIN and wash-out effect for wide-field imaging. With a much-improved increase in imaging speed, increased signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and increased imaging depth, visible light swept-source OCT (vis-ss-OCT) has the capability to perform more accurate functional and structural imaging.