Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Spectrally-encoded endoscopy techniques and methods
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Application No.: US15376144Application Date: 2016-12-12
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Publication No.: US09791317B2Publication Date: 2017-10-17
- Inventor: Milen Shishkov , Guillermo J. Tearney , Brett Eugene Bouma , Dvir Yelin , Nicusor Iftimia
- Applicant: The General Hospital Corporation
- Applicant Address: US MA Boston
- Assignee: The General Hospital Corporation
- Current Assignee: The General Hospital Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Boston
- Agency: Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP
- Main IPC: G01J3/18
- IPC: G01J3/18 ; G02B6/24 ; G02B6/26 ; B24B9/14 ; G01J3/02 ; A61B1/002 ; G02B23/24 ; G02B23/26

Abstract:
Exemplary apparatus for method for forming at least one spectral encoding endoscopy configuration. For example, it is possible to modify a spacer configuration and an lens optics configuration to have respective predetermined lengths, and also to modify a dispersive optics configuration to have a further predetermined length. Further, the modified spacer and modified lens optics configurations can be attached to one another to form a combined spacer-lens optics configuration. The modified dispersive optics configuration can be attached to a substrate to form to form a grating substrate configuration. Additionally, the combined spacer-lens optics configuration can be connected to an optical fiber, and the modified attached dispersed optics configuration can be connected to the modified attached lens optics configuration to form the spectral encoding endoscopy configuration(s) which can extends along a particular axis. The dispersive optics configuration can be modified to be at a predetermined angle with respect to the particular axis.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170160132A1 SPECTRALLY-ENCODED ENDOSCOPY TECHNIQUES AND METHODS Public/Granted day:2017-06-08
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