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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1997
Sel B Colak, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A device for imaging a turbid medium, for example a breast of a female, includes a holder for receiving the medium, a light source, a photodetector and a processing unit for deriving the image from the intensities measured. The holder is adapted to receive besides the turbid medium also an adaptation medium for influencing a photon path distribution of the turbid medium. The use of different values of optical parameters of the adaptation medium introduces different photon path distributions in the turbid medium. By means of these different photon path distributions the resolution of the image can be improved by utilizing the light sources and/or photodetectors in the same positions. When a liquid is used as the adaptation medium the shape of the adaptation medium can be perfectly matched between the holder and the turbid medium.