Patent ID: 8983580
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A method of forming an image of tissue, comprising: beginning an invasive procedure on a patient exposing tissue; acquiring tomographic OCT data via an optical fiber from an interface between the optical fiber and the exposed tissue; converting the tomographic OCT data, inside and outside a confocal volume, by full-field inverse scattering solution of amplitude and phase information obtained at the interface into at least one volumetric image incorporating tissue-characterizing information along both a depth axis and a transverse direction, wherein a sample susceptibility is found so as to minimize a difference between a forward scatter operator applied to the sample susceptibility and a data function, D(r;k), that is proportional to a scatter field measured at any position in a detector plane; and ending the invasive procedure after the converting of the tomographic OCT data into the at least one image.