Patent ID: 9377395
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: A61B,G01N

Claim Text:
1. A method for probing morphology of a tissue using a system including a light source, a polarizer, an analyzer, and a camera with a plurality of picture elements, the method comprising: illuminating the tissue with incident light through the polarizer; capturing by the camera, through the analyzer, scattered light from the tissue in a time sequence of image frames; during said capturing, changing at the same time respective polarization states of said incident light from the light source by varying the polarizer and of said scattered light from the tissue by varying the analyzer; during said capturing, detecting for a plurality of picture elements of the camera a time varying intensity signal of the scattered light responsive to the varying polarization state; and analyzing the time varying intensity signal for the picture elements throughout the image frames, thereby probing the morphology of the tissue.