Inventor · Champaign, IL, US

Stephen A. Boppart

38Patents
17h-index
43Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 27, 1996 → Jun 9, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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
US6564087B1 Fiber optic needle probes for optical coherence tomography imaging Electricity 697 Expired
US6501551B1 Fiber optic imaging endoscope interferometer with at least one faraday rotator Electricity 693 Expired
US8594757B2 Apparatus for biomedical imaging Human Necessities 98 Active
US8983580B2 Low-coherence interferometry and optical coherence tomography for image-guided surgical treatment of solid tumors Human Necessities 59 Active
US8115934B2 Device and method for imaging the ear using optical coherence tomography Physics 49 Active
US7725169B2 Contrast enhanced spectroscopic optical coherence tomography Physics 41 Active
US7602501B2 Interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy Physics 37 Active
US7623908B2 Nonlinear interferometric vibrational imaging Physics 36 Expired
US7751057B2 Magnetomotive optical coherence tomography Human Necessities 36 Active
US7787129B2 Method and apparatus for measurement of optical properties in tissue Human Necessities 25 Active
US7610074B2 Multi-functional plasmon-resonant contrast agents for optical coherence tomography Human Necessities 24 Expired
US7643155B2 Partially coherent illumination for inverse scattering full-field interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy Physics 21 Active
US7586618B2 Distinguishing non-resonant four-wave-mixing noise in coherent stokes and anti-stokes Raman scattering Physics 20 Expired
US7217410B2 Surface modified protein microparticles Human Necessities 19 Expired
US7450243B2 Volumetric endoscopic coherence microscopy using a coherent fiber bundle Physics 18 Active
US9867528B1 Quantitative pneumatic otoscopy using coherent light ranging techniques Human Necessities 17 Active
US8218152B1 Group refractive index reconstruction with broadband interferometric confocal microscopy Physics 14 Active
US7198777B2 Optical contrast agents for optically modifying incident radiation Human Necessities 12 Expired
US9638511B2 Smart phone attachment for 3-D optical coherence tomography imaging Physics 8 Active
US8300228B2 Matched pulse stimulated raman scattering Physics 3 Active
US8731272B2 Computational adaptive optics for interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy and other interferometric imaging Physics 2 Active
US10258238B2 Method and apparatus for OCT-based viscometry Physics 2 Active
US10445880B2 Molecular imaging biomarkers Physics 2 Active

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