Brett Eugene Bouma
140Patents
44h-index
74Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 27, 1996 → Mar 3, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6485413B1 | Methods and apparatus for forward-directed optical scanning instruments | Electricity | 1,159 | Expired |
| US6134003A | Method and apparatus for performing optical measurements using a fiber optic imaging guidewire, catheter or endoscope | Electricity | 1,053 | Expired |
| US6501551B1 | Fiber optic imaging endoscope interferometer with at least one faraday rotator | Electricity | 693 | Expired |
| US6111645A | Grating based phase control optical delay line | Electricity | 517 | Expired |
| US6421164B2 | Interferometeric imaging with a grating based phase control optical delay line | Electricity | 461 | Expired |
| US7366376B2 | System and method for optical coherence imaging | Physics | 438 | Expired |
| US7231243B2 | Optical methods for tissue analysis | Human Necessities | 432 | Expired |
| US6282011A | Grating based phase control optical delay line | Electricity | 371 | Expired |
| US7355716B2 | Apparatus and method for ranging and noise reduction of low coherence interferometry LCI and optical coherence tomography OCT signals by parallel detection of spectral bands | Physics | 332 | Expired |
| US7310150B2 | Apparatus and method for low coherence ranging | Physics | 292 | Expired |
| US7382949B2 | Fiber-optic rotational device, optical system and method for imaging a sample | Human Necessities | 288 | Expired |
| US6341036B1 | Confocal microscopy with multi-spectral encoding | Human Necessities | 241 | Expired |
| US6701181B2 | Multi-path optical catheter | Human Necessities | 237 | Expired |
| US7733497B2 | Method and apparatus for performing optical imaging using frequency-domain interferometry | Electricity | 218 | Expired |
| US7538859B2 | Methods and systems for monitoring and obtaining information of at least one portion of a sample using conformal laser therapy procedures, and providing electromagnetic radiation thereto | Human Necessities | 210 | Active |
| US7872759B2 | Arrangements and methods for providing multimodality microscopic imaging of one or more biological structures | Physics | 182 | Active |
| US6831781B2 | Confocal microscopy with multi-spectral encoding and system and apparatus for spectroscopically encoded confocal microscopy | Physics | 177 | Expired |
| US7447408B2 | Imaging system and related techniques | Physics | 165 | Expired |
| US8289522B2 | Arrangements and methods for providing multimodality microscopic imaging of one or more biological structures | Physics | 144 | Active |
| US8208995B2 | Method and apparatus for imaging of vessel segments | Human Necessities | 139 | Active |
| US7551293B2 | Method and apparatus for three-dimensional spectrally encoded imaging | Human Necessities | 135 | Expired |
| US7519096B2 | Process and apparatus for a wavelength tuning source | Electricity | 128 | Expired |
| US7418169B2 | Apparatus for controlling at least one of at least two sections of at least one fiber | Human Necessities | 121 | Active |
| US7643153B2 | Apparatus and method for ranging and noise reduction of low coherence interferometry LCI and optical coherence tomography OCT signals by parallel detection of spectral bands | Physics | 119 | Active |
| US7630083B2 | Apparatus and method for ranging and noise reduction of low coherence interferometry LCI and optical coherence tomography OCT signals by parallel detection of spectral bands | Physics | 118 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.