Scott D Hendrickson

US Patent:

20170135581, May 18, 2017

Filed:

Nov 10, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/348604

Inventors:

- Baltimore MD, US
Mark A. Chevillet - Silver Spring MD, US
Scott M. Hendrickson - Baltimore MD, US
Michael P. McLoughlin - Sykesville MD, US

International Classification:

A61B 5/00
G01B 9/02

Abstract:

Example apparatuses and methods relating to imaging systems are provided. An example imaging system may include an optical source configured to generate an optical beam, a beam splitter configured to split the optical beam into a reference beam and an object beam, and a beam combiner configured to route a combined beam with reference beam and object beam components along a common path into a target medium. In this regard, the target medium may act upon the combined beam to form a common path interference beam. The example imaging system may further include an imaging sensor configured to receive the common path interference beam and generate common path interference beam data associated with the common path interference beam, and an image data processor configured to analyze the common path interference beam data to generate image data describing the target medium.