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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2009
Jong S. Kim, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Joel S. Schuman, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Gadi Wollstein, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Jong S. Kim, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Joel S. Schuman, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Gadi Wollstein, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH—OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
Advances in optical coherence tomography (OCT) have prompted a transition from time domain OCT, providing 2D OCT images, to spectral domain OCT, which has a 3D imaging capability. Yet conventional technology offers little toward the goal of inter-device compatibility between extant 2D OCT images and newer 3D OCT images for the same or comparable subjects, as in the context of ongoing monitoring the quantitative status of a patient's eyes. The inventive methodology is particularly useful to identify the scan location of tissue in a 2D OCT image within the 3D OCT volumetric data, thereby allowing clinicians to image a patient via 3D OCT, based on available 2D OCT images, with minimal inter-device variation.