Abstract: Featured are methods, apparatus and devices for detecting a hematoma in tissue of a patient. In one aspect, such a method includes emitting near infrared light continuously into the tissue from a non-stationary near infrared light emitter and continuously monitoring the tissue using a non-stationary probe so as to continuously detect reflected light. The near infrared light is emitted at two distances from a brain of the patient, so the emitted light penetrates to two different depths. Such a method also includes applying a ratiometric analysis to the reflected light to distinguish a border between normal tissue and tissue exhibiting blood accumulation.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 15, 2010
Publication date:
June 13, 2013
Applicants:
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc., Office of Tichnology Transfer
Inventors:
Jason D. Riley, Franck Amyot, Amir H. Gandjbakhche, James G. Smirniotopoulos, Eric Wassermann