Patent ID: 11890230
Assignee: NANOSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 9:
10. The device according to claim 1, wherein physical properties include reflectivity, changes in refractive index, temperature, topography and thickness of layer(s);
a. wherein the reflectivity is measured from the intensity of image(s) of a sample layer(s) at different depth(s) acquired from the back-scattered light from the sample;
b. wherein the changes in refractive index is estimated from the optical path difference measured by the interference of the imaging light beam backscattered from the sample with a reference beam;
c. wherein the temperature is calculated from the changes in the optical path difference;
d. wherein the topography and thickness of different layers is measured from the depth-resolved image(s) of the sample.