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US08760664B2 Imaging apparatus and imaging method using optical coherence tomography 有权
使用光学相干断层扫描的成像设备和成像方法

  • Patent Title: Imaging apparatus and imaging method using optical coherence tomography
  • Patent Title (中): 使用光学相干断层扫描的成像设备和成像方法
  • Application No.: US12991734
    Application Date: 2009-07-06
  • Publication No.: US08760664B2
    Publication Date: 2014-06-24
  • Inventor: Nobuhito Suehira
  • Applicant: Nobuhito Suehira
  • Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
  • Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
  • Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
  • Priority: JP2008-177158 20080707; JP2009-151483 20090625
  • International Application: PCT/JP2009/062642 WO 20090706
  • International Announcement: WO2010/005091 WO 20100114
  • Main IPC: G01B11/02
  • IPC: G01B11/02 G01B9/02
Imaging apparatus and imaging method using optical coherence tomography
Abstract:
Provided is an imaging apparatus using Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography, the imaging apparatus removing noises caused by the autocorrelation component of returning light to obtain a high-resolution tomographic image. A first switching unit 17 switches a first state in which returning light 12 is combined with reference light (a state in which the returning light 12 is conducted to a combining unit 22) and a second state different from the first state (a state in which the light path of the returning light 12 is blocked or changed). A controlling unit 18 controls the switching unit 17 to change the first and the second state. A interferometric information acquiring unit 19 acquires interferometric information on the returning light 12 and the reference light 14 using the reference light 14 or the returning light 12 detected by the detecting unit 16 in the second state and the combined light 15.
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