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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2014
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (US);
The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jinxin Huang, Rochester, NY (US);
Jannick P. Rolland, Pittsford, NY (US);
Eric Clarkson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Matthew Kupinski, Tucson, AZ (US);
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (US);
The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for determining thickness of lipid and aqueous layers of a tear film in which a spectrum array is generated from optical coherence tomography and input into a statistical estimator, which determines the thickness of the lipid and/or aqueous layers at a nanometer resolution based on the inputted spectrum and other information, such as information about a laser intensity noise, Poisson noise, and dark noise associated with the OCT.