US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Dec. 23 for "System and method of dynamic micro-optical coherence tomography for mapping cellular functions" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,371, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"System and method of dynamic micro-optical coherence tomography for mapping cellular functions" was invented by Hui Min Leung (Boston), Guillermo J. Tearney (Boston) and Andreas Wartak (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for obtaining image data and functional data from a biological sample, the apparatus including: an interferometer configured to acquire interferometric information at a plurality of time points along an imaging plane for which at least one axis of the plane is at least partially along a depth or axial dimension that is based...