Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Measuring or detecting nonradioactive constituent of body...
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-07
2010-11-02
Casler, Brian (Department: 3737)
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Measuring or detecting nonradioactive constituent of body...
C382S128000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07826878
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a system and a method for detecting the presence of one or more objects in a turbid medium, the method including: illuminating at least a portion of the turbid medium with incident light having at least one wavelength which interacts with the one or more objects contained in the turbid medium differently than the incident light interacts with the turbid medium; measuring light that emerges from the turbid medium; and detecting and locating the one or more objects using Independent Component Analysis (ICA) of the emergent light from the turbid medium. The present invention is useful for medical applications, such as for finding and locating, a tumor(s) in body organs, or excised tissues. Moreover, the present invention can be used to locate objects in obscuring medium, such as, mines in shallow coastal water, a plane in fog, military targets under fog, smoke or cloud cover.
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Alfano Robert R.
Alrubaiee Mohammed
Gayen Swapan Kumar
Xu Min
Casler Brian
Mehta Parikha S
Research Foundation of City University of New York
The Farrell Law Firm, LLP
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