US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on July 21 for "Apparatus and methods to enhance signal to noise ratio imaging performance in optical coherence tomography" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,384, issued on July 21, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Apparatus and methods to enhance signal to noise ratio imaging performance in optical coherence tomography" was invented by Danielle J. Harper (Somerville, Mass.) and Benjamin J. Vakoc (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical coherence tomography system which is capable of operating in two or more optical bandwidth configurations for the purpose of trading off between high resolution imaging and high signal-to-noise ratio imaging, wherein the later enables deeper imaging depth. The system and associated methods allow for both high resolut...