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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2009
Anthony J. Durkin, Irvine, CA (US);
Sheng-hao Tseng, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Anthony J. Durkin, Irvine, CA (US);
Sheng-hao Tseng, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
A probe for obtaining quantitative optical properties and chromophore concentrations of tissue components in tissue in-vivo at superficial depths and at source-detector separations of 5 mm or less includes a source fiber providing light to expose the tissue, a diffuser layer into which light from the source fiber is directed and then from the diffuser layer to and/or into the tissue, and a detector fiber arranged relative to the diffuser layer for detecting backscattered and/or reflected light returned from the tissue without transmission through the diffuser layer.