Patent ID: 9282905
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: A61B,G02B

Claim Text:
1. A method, the method comprising: directing a light beam at a blood-perfused target tissue; reflecting the directed light beam off of static target tissue and flowing cells; capturing a plurality of digital images of interference patterns of the reflected light in a plurality of successive frames; measuring, via a processor, a light intensity of at least one pixel of each digital image, wherein the at least one pixel corresponds to an identical pair of coordinates in each successive frame; comparing the measured light intensity of the at least one pixel of each digital image to the measured light intensity of the at least one pixel of an adjacent frame at the identical pair of coordinates thereby enhancing a light saturation profile for the at least one pixel of each frame; and determining, via the processor, a compiled light intensity for the at least one pixel for an aggregate motion contrast image based upon the enhanced light saturation profile of the at least one pixel for each frame.