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US 2012/0075639 A1Published application
Imaging systems and methods incorporating non-mechanical scanning beam actuation
OwnerJeffrey Brennan, Jian Reninventors
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Abstract
In various embodiments, optical-imaging systems incorporate non-mechanical beam-actuation systems to facilitate the acquisition of, e.g., two- and three-dimensional images.
Claims26
An optical probe system comprising:
- a light source;
- a detector;
- an interferometer in optical communication with the light source and the detector;
- for communicating an optical beam from the light source to a sample, a handpiece having an aperture at a tip thereof through which the optical beam is communicated to the sample;
- and
- disposed within the handpiece, an electro-optic scanning mechanism for steering the optical beam with respect to the sample without relative motion between the handpiece and the sample, thereby imaging at least a portion of the sample in at least two dimensions.
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An imaging method utilizing an optical probe system comprising a handpiece for communicating an optical beam to a sample to be imaged, the method comprising:
- disposing a tip of the handpiece proximate the sample;
- and
- causing an electro-optic scanning mechanism to steer the optical beam with respect to the sample without relative motion between the handpiece and the sample, thereby imaging at least a portion of the sample in at least two dimensions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.