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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2005
Applicants:
Xavier Intes, Montreal, CA;
Frederic Lesage, Montreal, CA;
Sirithy Lam, Brest, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Softscan Healthcare Group Ltd., Tortola, VG;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/47 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/6428 (2013.01); G01N 21/4795 (2013.01); G06T 11/006 (2013.01); G01N 21/6456 (2013.01); G06T 2211/424 (2013.01); A61B 5/0073 (2013.01); A61B 5/0066 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided a method for determining the concentration of a fluorophore in a medium using moments of order k of the fluorescence signal. The method allows higher fidelity 3-dimensional reconstructions of the fluorophore in the medium. The method can be applied in imaging of fluorophores in biological tissues.