Patent ID: 11963740
Assignee: CANON U.S.A., INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 10:
11. The system of claim 1, further comprising one or more of the following:
a light source that operates to produce a light;
an interference optical system that operates to: (i) receive and divide the light from the light source into a first light with which an object or sample is to be irradiated and a second reference light, (ii) send the second reference light for reflection off of a reference mirror of the interference optical system, and (iii) generate interference light by causing reflected or scattered light of the first light with which the object or sample has been irradiated and the reflected second reference light to combine or recombine, and to interfere, with each other, the interference light generating one or more interference patterns; and/or
one or more detectors that operate to continuously acquire the interference light and/or the one or more interference patterns such that the one or more lumen edges, the one or more stents, and/or the one or more artifacts are detected in the images, and the one or more stents and/or the one or more artifacts are removed from the one or more images.