Inventor · Laguna Niguel, CA, US

J. Stuart Nelson

16Patents
12h-index
22Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: May 15, 1995 → Dec 4, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5814040A Apparatus and method for dynamic cooling of biological tissues for thermal mediated surgery Human Necessities 356 Expired
US6208415A Birefringence imaging in biological tissue using polarization sensitive optical coherent tomography Physics 262 Expired
US6549801B1 Phase-resolved optical coherence tomography and optical doppler tomography for imaging fluid flow in tissue with fast scanning speed and high velocity sensitivity Physics 250 Expired
US7359062B2 High speed spectral domain functional optical coherence tomography and optical doppler tomography for in vivo blood flow dynamics and tissue structure Human Necessities 229 Expired
US6171301A Apparatus and method for dynamic cooling of biological tissues for thermal mediated surgery Human Necessities 214 Expired
US5979454A Method and apparatus for causing rapid and deep spatially selective coagulation during thermally mediated therapeutic procedures Human Necessities 109 Expired
US5997530A Apparatus and method to control atmospheric water vapor composition and concentration during dynamic cooling of biological tissues in conjunction with laser irradiations Human Necessities 81 Expired
US6669688B2 Method and apparatus for measuring the heat transfer coefficient during cryogen spray cooling of tissue Human Necessities 79 Expired
US7322972B2 In vivo port wine stain, burn and melanin depth determination using a photoacoustic probe Human Necessities 78 Expired
US7072045B2 High resolution optical coherence tomography with an improved depth range using an axicon lens Physics 39 Expired
US7400754B2 Method and apparatus for characterization of chromophore content and distribution in skin using cross-polarized diffuse reflectance imaging Human Necessities 18 Active
US7016048B2 Phase-resolved functional optical coherence tomography: simultaneous imaging of the stokes vectors, structure, blood flow velocity, standard deviation and birefringence in biological samples Physics 12 Expired
US6944551B2 Imaging transverse flow velocity using spectral bandwidth of the doppler frequency shift in phase-resolved optical doppler tomography Human Necessities 7 Expired
US9050117B2 Dynamic cooling of human skin using a nontoxic cryogen with no ozone depletion and minimal global warming potential Human Necessities 5 Active
US8323273B2 Systems, devices, and methods for optically clearing tissue Human Necessities 5 Active
US9168388B2 System, devices, and methods for optically clearing tissue Human Necessities 1 Active

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