J. Stuart Nelson
16Patents
12h-index
22Co-inventors
74Inventor score
Filing activity: May 15, 1995 → Dec 4, 2012
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.