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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2013
United Sciences, Llc, Atlanta, GA (US);
Keith A. Blanton, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Karol Hatzilias, Atlanta, GA (US);
Stefan T. Posey, Austell, GA (US);
Wess Eric Sharpe, Vinings, GA (US);
United Sciences, LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Optical scanning with an optical probe composed of an elongated cylinder of transparent material mounted upon an optical scanner body; one or more sources of scan illumination mounted in the probe distally or proximally with respect to the scanner body and projecting scan illumination longitudinally through the probe; a radially-reflecting optical element mounted in the probe having a conical mirror on a surface of the radially-reflecting optical element, the mirror oriented so as to project scan illumination radially away from a longitudinal axis of the probe with at least some of the scan illumination projected onto a scanned object; a lens mounted in the probe between the radially-reflecting optical element and the scanner body and disposed so as to conduct to an optical sensor scan illumination reflected from the scanned object.