Patents Examined by Like D Ratcliffe
  • Method and system for measuring the speed of blood flow
    Patent number: 7911590
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for measuring the speed of a particle such as a red blood cell moving inside a flow such as a flow of the blood, using a light scanning microscope. The inventive method comprises the following steps: acquisition of an image by x and y light scanning on a plane containing the object; detection on the plane (x, y) of a mark on the plane (x, y); estimation of the speed vg of the object from the gradient thus determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Mauna Kea Technologies
    Inventors: Francois Lacombe, Georges Le Goualher, Aymeric Perchant, Nicholas Ayache