Well, there's no doubt about it: Contrary to what is stated on IMDS' Web site, the CTLM patent no. 5,692,511 was issued to Richard Grable -- not to Imaging Diagnostic Systems, Inc.
From the US Patent Office's Web site:
164.195.100.11
United States Patent 5,692,511
Grable December 2, 1997
Diagnostic tomographic laser imaging apparatus
Abstract
A laser imaging apparatus comprises a platform for supporting a female patient in front-down, prone position, including an opening permitting a breast of the patient to be vertically pendant below the surface of the platform; scanning mechanism including a multi-faceted mirror adjacent the underside of the platform, the mirror being rotated about its own axis and orbited around the pendent breast; a source of coherent near infrared narrow light pulses operably directed to the multi-faceted mirror; optical reflectors directing the light pulses onto the facets of the mirror from a point spaced from the platform for reflection in a series of horizontal fan shaped beams through a breast pendent below the platform; photodetectors operably disposed to detect the light pulses after passing through the breast; circuit for deriving voltages proportional to the intensity of the received pulses; and computer programmed for storing and displaying images of tissue in the breast derived from the voltages.
Inventors:
Grable; Richard J. (7400 SW. 13th St., Plantation, FL 33317)
Appl. No.: 484904
Filed: June 7, 1995
U.S. Class:
128/664; 128/633; 250/330
Intern'l Class:
A61B 006/00
Field of Search:
128/633,664,665 356/300,446
359/216,217,218,223,226 378/37 250/330,332,334 |
