Patent ID: 8170651

Claim:
A method for real-time Diffusive Optical tomographic (DOT) imaging of a diffusive medium comprising: (a) directing light waves into a diffusive medium having a boundary S; (b) using a detector to detect an intensity of light waves emitted from the diffusive medium by using non-contact measurements of the light waves outside the diffusive medium, where there is a non-diffusive medium between the detector and the diffusive medium, wherein the diffusive medium comprises biological tissue and the non-diffusive medium comprises air, wherein the diffusive medium fills an object of volume V, bounded by the boundary surface S, wherein the volume V is of arbitrary geometry; and (c) processing the detected intensity to generate a tomographic image by modeling propagation of diffuse photon waves inside the arbitrarily shaped diffusive volume V taking into account the boundary surface S and modeling intensity at the non-contact detector.