Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Portable probe for photoacoustic tomography and real-time photo acoustic tomography device
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Application No.: US17013664Application Date: 2020-09-07
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Publication No.: US11432798B2Publication Date: 2022-09-06
- Inventor: Chul Ho Oak , Eun Kee Park , Jung-Eun Park , Yeh Chan Ahn
- Applicant: PUKYONG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION
- Applicant Address: KR Busan
- Assignee: PUKYONG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION
- Current Assignee: PUKYONG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION
- Current Assignee Address: KR Busan
- Agency: Patent Office of Dr. Chung Park
- Priority: KR10-2016-0161637 20161130
- Main IPC: A61B8/13
- IPC: A61B8/13 ; A61B5/00 ; A61B8/00 ; G01N29/24 ; A61B8/08

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a portable probe for photoacoustic tomography, capable of performing line-by-line scanning or area-by-area scanning by using a small number of light inputs; and a real-time photoacoustic tomography device. The probe for photoacoustic tomography includes: a lens receiving light inputs from an optical fiber so as to make the same proceed as small diameter parallel light; a Powell lens receiving the small diameter parallel light and generating a line beam of a predetermined thickness, and allowing energy dispersed on a line to be uniform on the entire line; a lens making the line beam pass therethrough such that the line beam has a predetermined width and a reduced thickness so as to be line-focused at a target area; an acoustic reflection glass for separating, from a light path, an acoustic wave outputted from the target area; and an acoustic measurement unit for measuring acoustic strength.
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