Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical coherence tomography apparatus and image generation method using the same
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Application No.: US17264098Application Date: 2019-09-25
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Publication No.: US11578964B2Publication Date: 2023-02-14
- Inventor: Jeehyun Kim , Pilun Kim
- Applicant: KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
- Applicant Address: KR Daegu
- Assignee: KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
- Current Assignee: KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
- Current Assignee Address: KR Daegu
- Agency: Novick, Kim & Lee PLLC
- Agent Jae Youn Kim
- Priority: KR10-2018-0122442 20181015
- International Application: PCT/KR2019/012454 WO 20190925
- International Announcement: WO2020/080692 WO 20200423
- Main IPC: G01B9/02
- IPC: G01B9/02 ; G01B9/02091 ; G01J3/45 ; G01N21/45 ; G01N21/31

Abstract:
An optical coherence tomography (OCT) apparatus includes a light source unit to generate light, a coupler unit to generate coupled light using reference light and measurement light generated by splitting the light, split the coupled light into n coupled and split lights and irradiate the n coupled and split lights, wherein n is a natural number greater than or equal to 2, a detection unit to irradiate the incident n coupled and split lights to n spectroscopes respectively and sequentially scan each light separated from each of the spectroscopes by wavelength range, and an image generation unit to generate a 2-dimensional single image using a result of the scanning by the detection unit. Accordingly, it is possible to improve the OCT image acquisition rate by distributing the scan time for a plurality of split lights using a plurality of array detectors.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210310789A1 OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD USING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2021-10-07
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