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Optical coherence tomography system

US7577471B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Estelle Camus · Erlangen, DE
Oliver Meissner · Munich, DE
Thomas Redel · Baiersdorf, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 19, 2006
Grant date	Aug 18, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 24, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B6/4249
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An optical coherence tomography system includes a catheter in which is arranged a plurality of light conducting fibers. It further includes a plurality of optical units. Light from the proximal end to the distal end and signals from the distal end to the proximal end can be transmitted simultaneously in different fibers. Time is saved through the simultaneous signal processing of signals from different fibers. That is advantageous particularly in the imaging, by means of coherence tomography, of blood vessels that have to be occluded for said imaging.

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