Abstract: A radial scanner configured to image the interior of a tube includes, in an embodiment, a housing having a transparent window, a photo-sensing array, a mirror located within the housing and oriented to direct an image around a circumference of an interior surface of the tube outside the transparent window to the photo-sensing array, and a light source configured to illuminate the interior surface of the tube, wherein the photo-sensing array is configured to receive the image around the circumference as a circular line scan. In an embodiment, the radial scanner is deployed as an ingestible capsule. In another embodiment, the radial scanner is deployed as a fiber optic catheter.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 11, 2016
Publication date:
February 2, 2017
Applicant:
Innuvation, Inc.
Inventors:
Kenneth Edward SALSMAN, Anders Grunnet-Jepsen, Brian Glenn Jamieson