Brian Zahler Bentz,Kevin John Webb,Timothy Cheng-Hsien Wu,Vaibhav Gaind
申请号：
US15975211
公开号：
US20180325449A1
申请日:
2018.05.09
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要：
Methods for locating blood vessels, lesions, and other discontinuities in tissue such as, but not limited to, the greater palatine artery (GPA) in the hard palate using an optical imaging process, surgical procedures utilizing the identified locations of discontinuities, and devices suitable for use during surgical procedures. According to one aspect, such a method locates a blood vessel or lesion in tissue by imaging the tissue via a diffuse optical imaging (DOI) process that measures light that travels through the tissue, and then locates the blood vessel or lesion in the tissue based on a difference in absorption of the light between the tissue and the blood vessel or lesion.
