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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2006
Zhongping Chen, Irvine, CA (US);
Tuqiang Xie, Irvine, CA (US);
David Mukai, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Matthew Brenner, Irvine, CA (US);
Zhongping Chen, Irvine, CA (US);
Tuqiang Xie, Irvine, CA (US);
David Mukai, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Matthew Brenner, Irvine, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A fiber-optic bundle based optical coherence tomography (OCT) probe method is demonstrated in a multimode optical fiber bundle based OCT system. The system can achieve a lateral resolution of 12 μm and an axial resolution of 10 μm using a super-luminescent diode source. This imaging approach eliminates any moving parts in the probe and has a primary advantage for use in extremely compact and safe OCT endoscopes to image internal organs and great potential to be combined with confocal endoscopic microscopy.