Patent ID: 9326719
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: A61B,A61N

Claim Text:
1. A device for detecting neural activity beam comprising: a. a beam combiner configured to combine light; b. a broadband source optically linked to the beam combiner; c. an aiming beam source optically linked to the beam combiner; d. a separator linked to the beam combiner and configured to separate light into a reference beam and a sample beam; reference optics linked separator, wherein the reference optics includes a phase modulator coupled to a rapid scanning delay line; sample optics operably linked to the separator; e. a recombiner optically linked to the reference optics and sample optics configured to combine light; f. an optical spectrometer optically connected to the recombines and configured to detect a plurality of spectral interference densities from the recombiner; and g. a processor processes detected spectral interference densities to produce transient surface displacement information of a neuron, wherein the processor transforms the detection of the transient surface displacement information into an indicator of neural activity in the neuron.