Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Patent
1997-10-10
2000-07-18
Lateef, Marvin M.
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
A61B 500
Patent
active
060919841
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to systems and methods for measuring one or more physical characteristics of material such as tissue using optical radiation. The system can use light that is scattered by a tissue layer to determine, for example, the size of nuclei in the tissue layer to aid in the characterization of the tissue. These methods can include the use of fiber optic devices to deliver and collect light from a tissue region of interest to diagnose, for example, whether the tissue is normal or precancerous.
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Newton R. G., Scattering Theory of Waves and Particles, Second Edition Chapter 2, "Spherically Symmetric Scatterers," pp. 30-53. Chapter 3, "Limiting Cases and Approximations," pp. 54-78.
Backman Vadim
Feld Michael S.
Itzkan Irving
Manoharan Ramasamy
Perelman Lev T.
Lateef Marvin M.
Mantis Mercader Eleni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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