Invention Grant
- Patent Title: High resolution 3-D spectral domain optical imaging apparatus and method
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Application No.: US15951198Application Date: 2018-04-12
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Publication No.: US10575724B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Steven James Frisken , Trevor Bruce Anderson , Armin Georg Segref , Grant Andrew Frisken
- Applicant: Cylite Pty Ltd
- Agent Darren Gardner
- Priority: AU2015901970 20150528
- Main IPC: A61B3/10
- IPC: A61B3/10 ; A61B3/14 ; A61B3/00 ; A61B3/12 ; G06T11/00 ; G02B27/10 ; G06T15/08

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are presented for obtaining high-resolution 3-D images of a sample over a range of wavelengths, optionally with polarisation-sensitive detection. In preferred embodiments a spectral domain OCT apparatus is used to sample the complex field of light reflected or scattered from a sample, providing full range imaging. In certain embodiments structured illumination is utilised to provide enhanced lateral resolution. In certain embodiments the resolution or depth of field of images is enhanced by digital refocusing or digital correction of aberrations in the sample. Individual sample volumes are imaged using single shot techniques, and larger volumes can be imaged by stitching together images of adjacent volumes. In preferred embodiments a 2-D lenslet array is used to sample the reflected or scattered light in the Fourier plane or the image plane, with the lenslet array suitably angled with respect to the dispersive axis of a wavelength dispersive element such that the resulting beamlets are dispersed onto unique sets of pixels of a 2-D sensor array.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180228363A1 HIGH RESOLUTION 3-D SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2018-08-16
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