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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2006
Brian William Pogue, Hanover, NH (US);
Daqing Piao, Stillwater, OK (US);
Keith D. Paulsen, Hanover, NH (US);
Shudong Jiang, Hanover, NH (US);
Hamid Dehghani, Exeter, GB;
Heng Xu, Union City, CA (US);
Roger Springett, Hanover, NH (US);
Subhadra Srinivasan, Keene, NH (US);
Brian William Pogue, Hanover, NH (US);
Daqing Piao, Stillwater, OK (US);
Keith D. Paulsen, Hanover, NH (US);
Shudong Jiang, Hanover, NH (US);
Hamid Dehghani, Exeter, GB;
Heng Xu, Union City, CA (US);
Roger Springett, Hanover, NH (US);
Subhadra Srinivasan, Keene, NH (US);
The Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, MA (US);
Abstract
Optical tomography systems that provide light of multiple distinct wavelengths from a plurality of sources are described. The systems direct light into mammalian tissue, and light from the mammalian tissue is collected at a plurality of reception points. Collected light from each reception point is separated according to its wavelength, and received by a photodetector to produce path attenuation signals representing attenuation along paths between the source locations and the reception points. An image construction system generates a tomographic image of the mammalian tissue from the path attenuation signals. One embodiment of an optical imaging system includes an optical coherence tomography-near infrared probe. The systems and methods may utilize a spectral derivative approach that provides insensitivity to the boundary and boundary artifacts in the signal, thereby improving the quality of the reconstructed images.