Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for fluorescence lifetime imaging with periodically modulated light
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Application No.: US15487435Application Date: 2017-04-14
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Publication No.: US10337993B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Ayush Bhandari , Christopher Barsi , Achuta Kadambi , Ramesh Raskar
- Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Agent Stephen R. Otis
- Main IPC: G01N21/64
- IPC: G01N21/64 ; G07D7/00

Abstract:
A light source may illuminate a scene with amplitude-modulated light. The scene may include fluorescent material. The amplitude modulation may be periodic, and the frequency of the amplitude modulation may be swept. During the sweep, a time-of-flight sensor may take measurements of light returning from the scene. A computer may calculate, for each pixel in the sensor, a vector of complex numbers. Each complex number in the vector may encode phase and amplitude of light incident at the pixel and may correspond to measurements taken at a given frequency in the sweep. A computer may, based on phase of the complex numbers for a pixel, calculate fluorescence lifetime and scene depth of a scene point that corresponds to the pixel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180259454A1 Methods and Apparatus for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging with Periodically Modulated Light Public/Granted day:2018-09-13
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