Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dental optical coherence tomograph
- Patent Title (中): 牙科光学相干断层扫描仪
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Application No.: US12085423Application Date: 2006-11-22
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Publication No.: US07823782B2Publication Date: 2010-11-02
- Inventor: Toyohiko Yatagai , Yoshiaki Yasuno , Masami Tamura
- Applicant: Toyohiko Yatagai , Yoshiaki Yasuno , Masami Tamura
- Applicant Address: JP Kyoto
- Assignee: Shofu Inc.
- Current Assignee: Shofu Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kyoto
- Agency: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.
- Priority: JP2005-337372 20051122
- International Application: PCT/JP2006/323279 WO 20061122
- International Announcement: WO2007/060973 WO 20070531
- Main IPC: G06K7/10
- IPC: G06K7/10

Abstract:
A dental optical coherence tomography apparatus for measuring tissue in a stomatognathic region of a living body or an artificial composition in the stomatognathic region as a measured object includes: a variable wavelength light source (15); a light splitting portion (19) that splits light-source light emitted from the variable wavelength light source (15) into reference light (29) and measuring light (28); an interference portion (19) that causes the measuring light (28) and the reference light (29) to interfere with each other, thereby generating interference light; a photodetection portion (41) that measures the interference light; and an arithmetic portion (27b) that generates an image of a measured object (22) by Fourier transforming or inverse Fourier transforming the intensity of the interference light, whose wavelength changes with time, that has been detected by the photodetection portion for each of the wavelengths. Accordingly, an optical coherence tomography apparatus applicable to dental measurement can be provided.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090079993A1 Dental Optical Coherence Tomograph Public/Granted day:2009-03-26
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