Patent ID: 8914098
Filing Date: 2014-12-16
Classification: A61B,A61M,A61N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An imaging method, the method comprising: providing a handpiece having (a) a probe tip insertable into human or animal tissue and disposed at an end thereof, and connected thereto, (b) an optical coherence tomography (OCT) probe and (c) a second probe, such that a functionality of the OCT probe and a second functionality associated with the second probe are provided at the probe tip; disposing the probe tip adjacent to or into an ocular tissue; measuring, with the OCT probe, at least one of a feature size or a quantifiable characteristic of a structure in the ocular tissue for biometry analysis; and performing the second functionality on the articular cartilage tissue, wherein the functionality of the OCT probe is provided by a first one of a plurality of distinct parallel waveguides provided within a single optical fiber disposed within the probe tip and the second functionality is provided by a second one of the plurality of distinct parallel waveguides within the single optical fiber.