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Huang and colleagues: optical coherence tomography

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Medical imaging · METHOD

Reference score200,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Demonstrated in-vitro OCT cross sections of retina and coronary tissue at micrometre scale.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact eleven-author 1991 paper and its in-vitro demonstrations. It is not a clinical-validation record, does not absorb later in-vivo OCT systems and is not framed as sole invention over all optical-coherence antecedents.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact eleven-author 1991 paper and its in-vitro demonstrations. It is not a clinical-validation record, does not absorb later in-vivo OCT systems and is not framed as sole invention over all optical-coherence antecedents.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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