Patent ID: RE38800

Claim:
An apparatus for optical tomographic imaging of tissue structures with non-uniform surface geometries, comprising: an optical source capable of providing light having a wavelength capable of at least attenuated transmission through the tissue; a first fiber array including fiber bundles for transmitting light from the optical source to the tissue to be imaged; a second fiber array including fiber bundles for receiving light scattered by the tissue; an adjustable assembly including an at least one adjustable support member supporting one end of each fiber bundle, the fiber bundles being from the first and second fiber array and being distributed along the portion of each said one or more adjustable support member which conforms to a surface of a specimen the tissue being imaged so as to transmit light into, and collect light emanating from, the surface of the imaged tissue at a multitude of spaced-apart points; and a detector array receiving primarily steady-state scattered light collected by the fibers in the second fiber bundle, an output of the detector array that corresponds to the steady-state scattered light useable as a variable in a radiation transport equation array .