Patent ID: 8385997

Claim:
A method for identifying hemozoin, comprising: inducing a spectral response of one or more retinal ocular blood vessels via a scanning assembly operable to deliver, through a pupil, electromagnetic energy to the one or more retinal ocular blood vessels, the electromagnetic energy configured to induce Raman scattering of hemozoin present within the one or more ocular blood vessels; tracking one or more indicators of blood flow in the one or more retinal ocular blood vessels at least partially based on detecting one or more characteristics of the spectral response of the one or more retinal ocular blood vessels; detecting a Raman spectral response for hemozoin associated with the one or more retinal ocular blood vessels; and generating a response indicative of a malaria-related change in blood flow based on the tracking of the one or more indicators of blood flow in the one or more retinal ocular blood vessels.