Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dual-edge sampling with k-clock to avoid aliasing in optical coherence tomography
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Application No.: US16173146Application Date: 2018-10-29
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Publication No.: US10767973B2Publication Date: 2020-09-08
- Inventor: Bing Wang , Muhammad K. Al-Qaisi , Hugang Ren
- Applicant: Alcon Inc.
- Applicant Address: CH Fribourg
- Assignee: Alcon Inc.
- Current Assignee: Alcon Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: CH Fribourg
- Main IPC: G01B9/02
- IPC: G01B9/02 ; A61B3/10 ; A61B5/00

Abstract:
Techniques and apparatus for producing sampled Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) interference signals without aliasing, based on a swept-source OCT interference signal. An example apparatus comprises a k-clock circuit configured to selectively output a k-clock signal at any of a plurality of k-clock frequencies ranging from a minimum k-clock frequency to a maximum k-clock frequency, and an anti-aliasing filter configured to filter a swept-source OCT interference signal, to produce a filtered OCT interference signal, where the anti-aliasing filter has a cut-off frequency greater than one-half the minimum k-clock frequency but less than the minimum k-clock frequency. The apparatus further comprises an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter circuit configured to sample the filtered OCT interference signal at twice the k-clock frequency, to produce a sampled OCT interference signal. In some embodiments, the A/D converter circuit samples the filtered OCT interference signal at both rising and falling edges of the k-clock signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190128659A1 DUAL-EDGE SAMPLING WITH K-CLOCK TO AVOID ALIASING IN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY Public/Granted day:2019-05-02
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