Patent ID: 6873716
Filing Date: 2005-03-29
Classification: G01S,Y02A

Abstract:
1. A system for imaging a volume of a turbid medium that is living tissue, with objects therein, said system being for use with means for physically shifting at least part of a probe beam and at least part of a reflected beam, together, with respect to said turbid volume, and said system comprising: means for projecting a pulsed thin-fan-shaped beam to selectively illuminate, along an Illumination-propagation direction, a thin section of such turbid volume; means for receiving reflected light back, approximately along the illumination-propagation direction, from the thin section of turbid volume; and comprising: means for imposing a substantially common spatial definition and directional restriction, in one dimension, upon (1) the pulsed thin-fan-shaped beam projected by the projecting means and (2) the reflected light received back from the thin section of turbid volume; and means for sequentially operating the beam-projecting means, during operation of such physically-shifting means, to project a sequence of beam pulses to illuminate successive thin sections, and generate a corresponding sequence of composite electronic representations; and wherein: