US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE on Feb. 24 for "Method and apparatus for quantitative hyperspectral fluorescence and reflectance imaging for surgical guidance" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,793, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, N.H.).

"Method and apparatus for quantitative hyperspectral fluorescence and reflectance imaging for surgical guidance" was invented by Pablo A. Valdes (Hanover, N.H.), David W. Roberts (Lyme, N.H.), Keith D. Paulsen (Hanover, N.H.) and Frederic Leblond (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical microscope with a fluorescence excitation illuminator receives fluorescence emissions from a target, the surgical microscope having an optical output port. A tunable filter passes a filtered portion of light from the surgical microscope, the filtered ...