Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a no-contact, non-invasive clinical imaging modality which is a standard for ocular tissue structure assessment in daily ophthalmologic clinical care. Currently, more than eight different devices for performing OCT are commercially available from a variety of different manufacturers. However, a lack of standardization in data format and clinical measurements between the different manufacturers or even different iterations of devise from the same manufacturer can give rise to serious clinical problems.
Description
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed the Universal OCT Browser as a means for normalizing OCT signals. The Universal OCT Browser absorbs systematic differences in OCT signal characteristics and minimizes differences in both visualization and measurements and allows the use of the same analytical tools regardless of the source device.
Applications
· Enabling system compatibility and measurement comparability
· Universal browsing
Advantages
· Allows tracking of OCT measurements over time regardless of device used
· Provides only real comparison images from different OCT devices
· Reduces signal noise caused by hardware variations
· Minimizes signal quality variability
Invention Readiness
Software
IP Status
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8184885B2
