Paul Scott Carney;Stephen A. Boppart;Andrew Cittadine
发明人:
Stephen A. Boppart,Paul Scott Carney,Andrew Cittadine
申请号：
US14001556
公开号：
US20130345558A1
申请日:
2012.03.01
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要：
An intraoperative probe and a system for optically imaging a surgically significant volume of tissue or other scattering medium. An illumination source generates an illuminating beam that is conveyed to the vicinity of the tissue and a beam splitter, that may be no more than an optical phase reference, splits the illuminating beam into a sample beam along a sample beam path and a reference beam along a reference beam path. A scanning mechanism scans a portion of the sample beam across a section of the scattering medium, while a detector detects return beams from both the reference beam path and the sample beam path and generates an interference signal. A processor computationally moves an effective focus of the sample beam without physical variation of focus of the sample beam. The probe may have a sterilizable fairing that may be detachable.
