Patent ID: 9605941
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G01B,G01N,G02B,G03H

Claim:
1. A hand held tomographic imager comprising: a hand held housing containing a sample holder configured to hold a sample with one or more objects therein; a plurality of partially coherent or coherent light sources disposed in the hand held housing, each of the plurality of light sources being coupled to respective waveguides that are mounted in a bridge wherein each respective waveguide is oriented at varying angles with respect to a first side of the sample; a microcontroller disposed in the hand held housing and operatively connected to the plurality of light sources, the microcontroller configured to selectively activate individual light sources; an electromagnetic actuator disposed in the hand held housing and configured to move the bridge and waveguides in substantially orthogonal directions; and a stationary image sensor disposed in the hand held housing on a second opposing side of the sample, wherein the waveguides are located a distance z