Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) system with improved motion contrast
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Application No.: US15104491Application Date: 2015-02-04
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Publication No.: US09763569B2Publication Date: 2017-09-19
- Inventor: Jeffrey P. Fingler , Scott E. Fraser
- Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA , CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- Applicant Address: US CA Los Angeles US CA Pasadena
- Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Los Angeles US CA Pasadena
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2015/014410 WO 20150204
- International Announcement: WO2015/120017 WO 20150813
- Main IPC: A61B3/14
- IPC: A61B3/14 ; A61B3/00 ; A61B3/10 ; A61B3/12 ; A61B5/00 ; G01B9/02

Abstract:
This disclosure relates to the field of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). This disclosure particularly relates to an OCT system with improved motion contrast. This disclosure particularly relates to motion contrast methods for such OCT systems. The OCT system of this disclosure may have a configuration that scans a physical object, which has a surface and a depth, with a beam of light that has a beam width and a direction; acquires OCT signals from the scan; forms at least one A-scan using the acquired OCT signals; forms at least one B-scan cluster set using the acquired OCT signals that includes at least two B-scan clusters that each include at least two B-scans. The B-scans within each B-scan cluster set are parallel to one another and parallel to the direction of the beam of light. The OCT system may have a configuration that calculates OCT motion contrast using the at least one B-scan cluster set. This OCT system may form and display an image of the physical object.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170000327A1 OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT) SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED MOTION CONTRAST Public/Granted day:2017-01-05
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