Patent ID: 9677869
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01B,G01N

Claim:
1. A method for generating a wide field optical coherence tomography (OCT) image of a portion of a sample, wherein the method comprises: creating a surface map of the sample; acquiring raw OCT data of the portion of the sample based on the surface map by identifying an initial scan position and a final scan position on the surface map, the initial scan position corresponding to a highest point of the surface of the portion of the sample and the final scan position corresponding to a lowest point of the surface of the portion of the sample, and for a given set of vertical OCT images, acquiring the raw OCT data to generate at least a first OCT image with an upper edge of an imaging window aligned with the initial scan position and a second OCT image with an upper edge of an imaging window aligned with the final scan position; generating a plurality of OCT images from the raw OCT data; and combining two or more OCT images of the plurality of OCT images to create the wide field OCT image.