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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 26, 2013
Applicant:

Alcon Research, Ltd., Fort Worth, TX (US);

Inventors:

Kambiz Parto, Laguna Hills, CA (US);

Barry Wheatley, Oceanside, CA (US);

Dean Lin, Chino Hills, CA (US);

Tammo Heeren, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);

Lingfeng Yu, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);

Assignee:

Novartis AG, Basel, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/10 (2006.01); A61F 9/008 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/102 (2013.01); A61F 9/00821 (2013.01); A61F 2009/00863 (2013.01); A61F 2009/00868 (2013.01);
Abstract

An adjustment system for an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging system includes an OCT light source; a beam splitter, splitting the OCT light beam into an imaging beam to an imaging arm, and a reference beam to a reference arm; a probe, guiding the imaging beam onto a target and receiving a returned imaging beam from the target; the beam splitter generating an interference beam from the returned imaging beam and a returned reference beam from the reference arm; an imaging detector, detecting the interference beam; an imaging processor, generating an OCT image from the detected interference beam; and an adjustment device, removably coupled to the probe, the adjustment device comprising the target attached to a distal region of a target holder at a working distance from a distal end of the imaging probe, wherein an optical length of the reference arm is adjustable to improve a calibration of the OCT image.


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