Patent ID: 7647091
Filing Date: 2010-01-12
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A system for optical tomography of an object, comprising: a data collection system to collect light having traveled through the object and in free space about the object and to generate one or more electrical signals in response to the light; a surface-capture system to receive surface light reflected from a surface of the object and to generate a surface model of at least a portion of the surface of the object in response to the surface light; a model processor coupled to the surface-capture system to provide one or more optical models associated with the surface model, wherein the one or more optical models comprises a description of propagation of light in free space between the object and one or more light sensors; and a solution processor coupled to the data collection system and to the model processor to provide a tomographic image of the object in response to the one or more signals and to the one or more optical models.