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App. No. 14/083,044

SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING IMAGE CROSS-SECTIONS OF AN OBJECT FROM RECEIVED ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION

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App. No.
14/083,044
Abstract

An apparatus and method to produce a hologram of a cross-section of an object includes an electromagnetic radiation assembly configured to receive a received electromagnetic radiation, such as light, from the object. The electromagnetic radiation assembly is further configured to diffract the received electromagnetic radiation and transmit a diffracted electromagnetic radiation. An image capture assembly is configured to capture an image of the diffracted electromagnetic radiation and produce the hologram of the cross-section of the object from the captured image. The hologram of the cross-section includes information regarding a single cross-section of the object.

Claims (9)

1 . An apparatus configured to produce holograms of plural cross-sections of an object, said apparatus comprising:

an electromagnetic radiation assembly configured to receive a received electromagnetic radiation from the object, diffract the received electromagnetic radiation, and transmit a diffracted electromagnetic radiation;

an image capture assembly configured to capture at least one image of the diffracted electromagnetic radiation, and produce holograms of plural cross-sections of the object from the at least one captured image, each of the holograms including information regarding a single cross-section of the object; and

a distance varying device configured to vary a distance to the object for each of the single cross sections of the object.

2 . An apparatus configured to produce holograms of plural cross-sections of an object, said apparatus comprising:

an electromagnetic radiation assembly configured to receive a received electromagnetic radiation from the object, diffract the received electromagnetic radiation, and transmit a diffracted electromagnetic radiation;

an image capture assembly configured to capture at least one image of the diffracted electromagnetic radiation, and produce holograms of plural cross-sections of the object from the at least one captured image, each of the holograms including information regarding a single cross-section of the object; and

an object focal plane varying device configured to vary an object focal plane location for each of the single cross sections of the object.

3 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the object focal plane varying device varies the object focal plane by varying a diffracting capability of a portion of the electromagnetic radiation assembly.