Patent ID: 9618319
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01B,G01N

Claim:
1. A method for forming a three-dimensional (3D) map of a mechanical property of a biological tissue, the method comprising: receiving, from an optical detector, optical data representing light scattered only by a biological tissue layer; calculating two-dimensional (2D) distributions of a viscoelastic parameter representing the mechanical property of the biological tissue at a plurality of depths including the depth location of the tissue layer and depths outside the depth location of the tissue layer; and mapping the 2D distributions into a 3D data set representing the distributions of the viscoelastic parameter in relation to the plurality of depths that indicates a 3D distribution of stiffness of the tissue extra-cellular matrix (ECM) at the depth location of the tissue layer and depths outside the depth location of the tissue layer.