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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2008
Rainer Nebosis, Munich, DE;
Rainer Scheunemann, Munich, DE;
Edgar-gerald Kopp, Merching, DE;
Agfa HealthCare NV, Mortsel, BE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a system for optical coherence tomography having an interferometer (), a detector () with a first number of detector elements for collecting light, and an optical fiber () with a second number of individual fibers for transmitting light from the interferometer () to the detector (). In order to increase the compactness of the system with at the same time high image quality provision is made such that the detector elements have a first center-center distance and the individual fibers have a second center-center distance, the first center-center distance between the detector elements being greater than the second center-center distance between the individual fibers.