The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
May. 29, 2013
Board of Regents, the University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Marc D. Feldman, San Antonio, TX (US);
Thomas E. Milner, Austin, TX (US);
Jung-Hwan Oh, Austin, TX (US);
Eunha Kim, Austin, TX (US);
Karathik Kumar, Austin, TX (US);
Jonathan C. Condit, Austin, TX (US);
Robert Grant, Austin, TX (US);
Nathaniel J. Kemp, Concord, MA (US);
Jihoon Kim, Evanston, IL (US);
Shaochen Chen, Austin, TX (US);
Li-Hsin Han, Austin, TX (US);
Board of Regents, the University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
The embodiments disclosed herein is a system for optical coherence tomographic imaging of turbid (i.e., scattering) materials utilizing multiple channels of information. The multiple channels of information may encompass spatial, angle, spectral and polarization domains. More specifically, the embodiments disclosed herein is related to methods and apparatus for utilizing optical sources, systems or receivers capable of providing (source), processing (system) or recording (receiver) a multiplicity of channels of spectral information for optical coherence tomographic imaging of turbid materials. In these methods and apparatus the multiplicity of channels of spectral information that can be provided by the source, processed by the system, or recorded by the receiver are used to convey simultaneously spatial, spectral or polarimetric information relating to the turbid material being imaged tomographically. The multichannel optical coherence tomographic methods can be incorporated into an endoscopic probe for imaging a patient.