Patent ID: 9655523
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01J,G02B

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: sourcing light at different wavelengths concurrently to form an incident beam; communicating the light along an articulated arm that does not use a fiber optic conduit; scanning a location of the incident beam including the different wavelengths across a target region at a selectable incident angle to the target region; obtaining an optical response concurrently at different locations at different distances in a first direction from the beam location upon the target region, the different distances corresponding to respective different depths penetrated by the incident beam at the selectable incident angle within the target region; spectrally separating different wavelengths of the obtained optical response; and detecting the spectrally separated wavelengths of the obtained optical response from the different locations concurrently to provide information about the target region.