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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2005
Joseph E. Demuth, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Patrick J. Treado, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
John S. Maier, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Jeffrey K. Cohen, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Joseph E. Demuth, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Patrick J. Treado, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
John S. Maier, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Jeffrey K. Cohen, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Chem Image Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to methods and devices for assessing one or more blood components in an animal. The present invention permits non-invasive assessment of blood components in a body structure containing blood and other tissue types by assessing multiple regions of a tissue surface for an optical characteristic of blood and separately assessing one or more optical (e.g., Raman or NIR) characteristics of the blood component for one or more regions that exhibit the optical characteristic of blood.