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Patents & Disclosures

  1. Tearney GJ, Boppart SA, Bouma BE, Brezinski ME, Swanson EA, Fujimoto JG. Method and apparatus for performing optical measurements using a fiber optic imaging guidewire, catheter or endoscope. Issued October 17, 2000. Patent # 6,134,003.
  2. Boppart SA, Tearney GJ, Bouma BE, Brezinski ME, Swanson EA, Fujimoto JG. Method and apparatus for forward-directed optical scanning instruments. Issued November 26, 2002. Patent # 6,485,413.
  3. Tearney GJ, Boppart SA, Bouma BE, Brezinski ME, Swanson EA, Fujimoto JG. Fiber optic imaging endoscope interferometer with at least one faraday rotator. Issued December 31, 2002. Patent # 6,501,551.
  4. Pitris C, Boppart SA, Li XD, Brezinski ME, Swanson EA, McNamara E, Fujimoto JG. Fiber optic needle probes for optical coherence tomography imaging. Issued May 13, 2003. Patent #6,564,087.
  5. Boppart SA, Marks DL, Suslick KS, Toublan FJJ. Optical contrast agents for optically modifying incident radiation. Patent filed June 17, 2003.
  6. Suslick KS, Toublan FJJ, Boppart SA, Marks DL. Surface modified protein microparticles. Patent filed June 17, 2003.
  7. Marks DL, Boppart SA. Volumetric endoscopic coherence microscopy using a coherent fiber bundle. Patent 7,450,243, November 11, 2008.
  8. Marks DL, Boppart SA. Optical coherence tomography acquisition, processing, analysis, and display software (OCT DAQ). Disclosed July 26, 2002.
  9. Boppart SA, Marks DL. Nonlinear interferometric vibrational imaging. Patent filed January 24, 2003.
  10. Zysk AM, Boppart SA. Method and apparatus for cross-sectional mapping of optical properties using projection data. Disclosed May 21, 2003.
  11. Boppart SA, Wei A. Multi-functional plasmon-resonant contrast agents for optical coherence tomography. Patent filed January 18, 2004.
  12. Oldenburg AL, Suslick KS, Boppart SA. Method for optical imaging of externally-modifiable contrast agents. Disclosed April 30, 2004.
  13. Marks DL, Boppart SA. Distinguishing non-resonant four-wave-mixing noise in coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering. Patent filed February 28, 2005.
  14. Boppart SA, Xu C. Contrast enhancement methods in spectroscopic optical coherence tomography (OCT). Patent filed April 15, 2005.
  15. Zysk A, Sampson D, Boppart SA. Method and apparatus for needle-based measurements of optical properties in soft tissue. Patent filed January 31, 2006.
  16. Ralston TS, Marks DL, Carney PS, Boppart SA. Interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy. Patent filed July 10, 2006.
  17. Boppart SA, Nguyen FT, Zysk AM. Low-coherence interferometry and optical coherence tomography for image-guided surgical treatment of solid tumors. Disclosed April 1, 2007, patent filed February 18, 2008.
  18. Boppart SA, Xi C. Enhanced pneumatic otoscope with coherence ranging capability. Disclosed June 1, 2007, patent filed February 18, 2008.
  19. Oldenburg AL, Boppart SA. Method and apparatus for optical imaging of magnetic particles. Disclosed July 1, 2007, patent filed February 18, 2008.
  20. Boppart SA, Oldenburg AL, Liang X, Crecea V. Method and apparatus for magnetomotive elastography. Disclosed July 1, 2007, patent filed February 18, 2008.
  21. Boppart SA. Apparatus and method for measuring a characteristic of a composition reactive to a magnetic field. Disclosed April, 2008, patent filed June 9, 2008.
  22. Marks DL, Geddes JB, Boppart SA. Matched pulse stimulated Raman scattering. Disclosed June 18, 2008, patent filed October 21, 2008.
  23. Marks DL, Schlachter SC, Zysk AM, Boppart SA. Group refractive index reconstruction with broadband interferometric confocal microscopy. Disclosed September, 2007, patent filed December 3, 2008.
  24. Marks DL, Carney PS, Boppart SA. Interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy (ISAM) using partially coherence light source. Disclosed September, 2007, patent to be filed.
  25. Boppart SA. Apparatus and method for a hand-held optical coherence tomography ophthalmoscope. Disclosed August 30, 2008, patent to be filed.
  26. Tu H, Boppart SA. Compression of supercontinuum pulse generated in all normal dispersion photonic crystal fiber. Provisional patent application 61/378,763 filed August 26, 2010.
  27. Rezaeipoor R, Boppart SA. Fc-directed antibody conjugation of magnetic nanoparticles for magnetic resonance imaging and magnetomotive optical coherence tomography. Disclosed April, 2009.
  28. Tu H, Boppart SA. Optical frequency up-conversion of infrared femtosecond laser pulses into visible pulses by Cherenkov radiation and intermodal four-wave mixing in photonic crystal fibers. To be filed, 2011.
  29. Boppart SA, Carney PS, Cittadine A. Hand-held fixed-focus optical probe. Patent filed January, 2011.
  30. Adie SG, Carney PS, Boppart SA. Computational adaptive optics for interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy and other interferometric imaging. Provisional patent filed January 24, 2011.
  31. Kim JS, Crecea, Boppart SA.  Method and apparatus for biomechanical properties measurement for real-time dosimetry during interventional radiology procedures.  Disclosed November, 2011.