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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2006
Applicants:
IN Duk Hwang, Suwon-si, KR;
Kyung Ho Kim, Yongin-si, KR;
Inventors:
In Duk Hwang, Suwon-si, KR;
Kyung Ho Kim, Yongin-si, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/1455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for measuring glucose concentration by using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), and more particularly, an apparatus and method for increasing the blood volume around a measurement part by using a blood concentrating device and noninvasively measuring glucose concentration of the measuring portion by using OCT. A glucose concentration measuring apparatus and method using OCT according to the invention can noninvasively measure glucose concentration by using OCT and help a user to easily measure glucose concentration.