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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2014
Applicant:
Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Dublin, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jochen Straub, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Clement Louis-Rene Viard, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Assignee:
CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC., Dublin, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/02 (2006.01); G01B 9/02 (2006.01); A61B 3/10 (2006.01); G01N 21/47 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/02077 (2013.01); A61B 3/102 (2013.01); G01B 9/0203 (2013.01); G01B 9/02044 (2013.01); G01B 9/02091 (2013.01); G01N 21/4795 (2013.01); G01B 2290/65 (2013.01); G01B 2290/70 (2013.01);
Abstract
An optical coherence tomography device is disclosed for improved imaging. Reduced levels of speckle in the images generated by the device are obtained by forming a B-scan from a plurality of A-scans, wherein each resolution cell of the B-scan is generated through compounding of a subset of the A-scans and wherein at least some of the subset of A-scans are separated by at least half the diameter of a speckle cell both tangent to and orthogonal to the B-scan at that cell.