Patent Document ID: 20130317331
Application ID: 13887220
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for determining oxygen saturation of tissue via a tissue oximetry device comprising: emitting light from a set of light sources into tissue; detecting the light by a plurality of detectors subsequent to reflection of the light from the tissue; generating reflectance data points for the tissue based on detecting the light by the plurality of detectors; determining a first subset of simulated reflectance curves from a set of simulated reflectance curves stored in the tissue oximetry device for a coarse grid; fitting the reflectance data points to the first subset of simulated reflectance curves included in the coarse grid to determine a closest fitting one of the simulated reflectance curves included in the coarse grid; determining a second subset of simulated reflectance curves from the set of simulated reflectance curves stored in the tissue oximetry device for a fine grid based on the closest fitting one of the simulated reflectance curves included in the coarse grid; determining a peak surface array of absorption coefficients and reflection coefficients from the fine grid; and determining an absorption coefficient and a reflectance coefficient for the reflectance data points by performing a weighted average of the absorption coefficients and reflection coefficients from the peak surface array.