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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2011
Reginald Birngruber, Luebeck, DE;
Ralf Brinkmann, Luebeck, DE;
Gereon Huettmann, Luebeck, DE;
Heike Mueller, Hamburg, DE;
Reginald Birngruber, Luebeck, DE;
Ralf Brinkmann, Luebeck, DE;
Gereon Huettmann, Luebeck, DE;
Heike Mueller, Hamburg, DE;
Medizinisches Laserzentrum Luebeck GmbH, Luebeck, DE;
Abstract
A device for examining or treating living tissue by means of local heating of the tissue by absorbing electromagnetic radiation, with at least one radiation source emitting electromagnetic radiation, a control unit for controlling the irradiation parameters of the radiation source, and at least one FD-OCT apparatus with a light source emitting a measurement light for illuminating that tissue region in which the electromagnetic radiation is absorbed by the tissue, characterized by a computational unit for carrying out the following steps: determining the depth-resolved tissue velocity in the radiation direction of the measurement light at a predetermined measurement point of the tissue from the phase information from the FD-OCT interference light, integrating the established tissue velocity over time, differentiating the calculated time integral with respect to space, and displaying the spatial derivative as a function of space and time and/or feeding the spatial derivative as a function of space and time to an evaluation module and/or feeding the spatial derivative as a function of space and time to the control unit.