Patent ID: 9668672
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A system for use in monitoring one or more conditions of a subject's body, the system comprising a control unit being a computer system comprising: an input port which is in data communication with an external device and is configured and operable to receive input data from said external device, said input data being indicative of defocused coherent image data in the form of a sequence of speckle patterns collected from the body with a certain sampling time pattern; a non-transitory computer readable memory storing the received defocused image data and storing model data comprising one or more models describes a relation between one or more conditions of the subject's body and one or more parameters derivable from defocused coherent image data; a processor configured and operable to access and process the defocused coherent image data to translate said defocused coherent image data into said one or more body conditions, said translating of the defocused coherent image data into said one or more body conditions comprising: an output port configured to transmit said output data to at least one device configured to present the output data to a user, the output data comprising at least one of a graph of the time varying spatial correlation function and a value of at least one body condition being determined.