Patent ID: 8345257

Claim:
A probe constructed and adapted to be held within a user's hand, comprising: an OCT interferometer comprising: a light source, an optical coupler, a reference arm, a sample arm, and a detector; and a scanning mechanism associated with the sample arm that generates two or more lateral scans over an area to be imaged using two or more respective wavelengths of the light source, wherein the scanning mechanism is operative to perform a scanning method, the method comprising: a. scanning an object in the area with one or more triangulation scans to produce a mesh in a fixed coordinate system; b. scanning the object at N further positions overlapping with the mesh, where at each scan location the object is scanned in a triangulation mode and in an OCT mode; c. computing a transformation matrix that registers the scan in triangulation mode of step (b) with the mesh obtained in step (a); d. applying the transformation matrix to data collected from the scan in OCT mode to generate transformed OCT data; and e. merging the transformed OCT data into a mesh that is the same fixed coordinate system as described in step (a).