Non-confocal Point-scan Fourier-domain Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging System

    公开(公告)号:US20230363639A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-16

    申请号:US18197059

    申请日:2023-05-13

    Applicant: Optos PLC

    CPC classification number: A61B3/102 A61B5/0066 A61B3/0025

    Abstract: A non-confocal point-scan Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography, OCT, imaging system, comprising: a scanning system arranged to perform a two-dimensional point scan of a light beam across an imaging target, and collect light scattered by the imaging target; a light detector arranged to generate a detection signal based on an interference between a reference light and the light collected by the scanning system. The OCT imaging system further comprises hardware arranged to: generate complex volumetric OCT data of the imaging target based on the detection signal, the OCT data including a component which, when the OCT data is processed to generate an enface projection of the OCT data, provides a defocusing and/or distortion in the enface projection; and generate corrected OCT data by executing a correction algorithm which uses phase information in the OCT data to remove at least some of the component from the OCT data.

    Pre-processing of OCT B-scans for OCT Angiography

    公开(公告)号:US20230298236A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-21

    申请号:US18108103

    申请日:2023-02-10

    Applicant: OPTOS PLC

    Inventor: Gagarine Yaikhom

    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of processing repeat B-scans of an imaged region of a body part, the imaged region including an anatomical feature in a first subregion and vasculature of interest in a second subregion of the imaged region, to generate cropped B-scans for use in generating OCT angiography data which provides a representation of the vasculature of interest, the method comprising processing each B-scan of the repeat B-scans by: selecting a subset of the data elements of the B-scan such that the selected data elements are distributed along a representation of the anatomical feature in the B-scan; using the selected data elements to define a respective subregion of interest in the B-scan, which includes OCT data acquired from the second subregion containing the vasculature of interest; and cropping the B-scan to leave the subregion of interest in the B-scan.

    Ophthalmic imaging device
    65.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11751765B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-12

    申请号:US17036201

    申请日:2020-09-29

    Applicant: Optos Plc

    Abstract: An ophthalmic device for imaging an eye, wherein a scanning element scans a first portion of light beam across a region of an eye via a light guiding component and a second portion of the light beam is reflected back by the light guiding component. The ophthalmic device further comprises: a light detector to detect light reflected from eye and guided to the light detector by the light guiding component; and a dynamic amplitude mask which receives the light reflected from the eye and the light reflected back by the light guiding component, and has an unmasked portion to allow light reflected from the eye to reach the light detector, and a masked portion whose spatial distribution varies with a scan angle such that the masked portion prevents light reflected back by the light guiding component from reaching the light detector during the scan.

    Optical element control
    66.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11635552B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-25

    申请号:US16636999

    申请日:2017-08-14

    Applicant: Optos PLC

    Abstract: An optical system comprising: an optical element having an optical property responsive to an applied signal, a variation of the optical property with the signal exhibiting hysteresis in a first range of values and no hysteresis in a second range of values of the signal; a memory storing data representing a hysteresis curve which indicates the variation of the optical property with increasing and decreasing values of the signal; and a controller which continuously controls the optical property by: generating, based on the stored data, a cyclic signal having a discontinuity in each cycle of the cyclic signal, and setting the discontinuity size in each cycle based on the stored data such that a part of the variation of the optical property with the cyclic signal coincides with a part of the variation represented by the stored data; and applying the cyclic signal to the optical element.

    Processing of Multimodal Retinal Images

    公开(公告)号:US20220304566A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-29

    申请号:US17702119

    申请日:2022-03-23

    Applicant: OPTOS PLC

    Abstract: There is provided a method of processing image data defining a fundus image of a retina to include supplementary information on a designated feature in the fundus image, comprising: designating (S10) a feature in the fundus image; receiving (S20) OCT data of a C-scan of the retina; selecting (S30) a subset of the OCT data representing a volumetric image of a part of the retina at a location on the retina corresponding to a location of the designated feature in the fundus image; processing (S40) the selected subset to generate, as the supplementary information, supplementary image data indicative of a variation, along a depth direction of the retina, of a measured reflectance of the eye in the selected subset; and combining (S50) the image data with the supplementary image data, such that an image defined by the combined data provides an indication of the variation at the designated feature.

    INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

    公开(公告)号:US20220261989A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-18

    申请号:US17631275

    申请日:2020-07-29

    Abstract: An information processing system comprises: an image acquisition device acquiring subject eye image data of a patient; and a first information processing device communicating with the image acquisition device and storing the image data, the image acquisition device transmits, to the first information processing device, the image data and first transmission data including additional information used to identify an image diagnosis device performing image diagnosis on the image data, the first information processing device: stores the image data when receiving the first transmission data from the image acquisition device; identifies, based on the additional information, a first image diagnosis device performing a first image diagnosis on the image data and/or a second image diagnosis device performing a second image diagnosis differing from the first image diagnosis on the image data; and transmits second transmission data including the image data to the identified image diagnosis device.

    FUNCTIONAL OCT DATA PROCESSING
    70.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210022601A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-28

    申请号:US16930465

    申请日:2020-07-16

    Applicant: Optos Plc

    Abstract: A method of processing functional OCT image data, acquired by an OCT scanner scanning a retina that is being repeatedly stimulated by a light stimulus, to obtain a response of the retina to the light stimulus, comprising: receiving OCT image data generated by the OCT scanner repeatedly scanning the retina over a time period, and a sequence of stimulus indicators each indicative of a stimulation of the retina by the light stimulus in a respective time interval of a sequence of time intervals spanning the time period; calculating, for each stimulus indicator, a product of the stimulus indicator and a respective windowed portion of the sequence of B-scans comprising a B-scan based on a portion of the OCT image data generated while the retina was being stimulated in accordance with the stimulus indicator; and combining the calculated products to generate the indication of the response.

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