Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Patent
1995-10-27
1999-07-06
Lateef, Marvin M.
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
600310, 606 3, 607 88, A61B 600
Patent
active
059191406
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to the use of time gated scattered light, for determining the location and composition of material within various organs of the human body. The systems and methods of the present invention provide for medical imaging in three dimensions of internal body structures for diagnostic purposes.
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Dasari Ramachandra Rao
Feld Michael S.
Itzkan Irving
Perelman Lev T.
Wang Yang
Lateef Marvin M.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shaw Shawna J
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