Patent ID: 8545517
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: A61B,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method of dissecting hair grafts from a body comprising: using optical coherence tomography to obtain one or more images of a hair graft beneath a body surface; enhancing the one or more images to enable visualization of at least a portion of a curvature of a hair shaft of the hair graft beneath the body surface; positioning a hair follicle dissection tool relative to an above-the-surface portion of the hair graft; determining, using the one or more enhanced images, whether to change an orientation of the hair follicle dissection tool to account for the curvature of the hair shaft beneath the body surface; and if it is determined that a change in orientation is desirable, changing the orientation of the hair follicle dissection tool relative to the hair graft below the body surface to dissect the hair graft from a surrounding tissue.