Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080249380 | Protection Mechanism for Spectroscopic Analysis of Biological Tissue - The present invention provides a protection mechanism for a spectroscopic analysis system being adapted to determine a property of a biological structure in a volume of interest of a patient. The spectroscopic system preferably makes use of high power radiation, and provides a protection mechanism for preventing an accidental exposure of light sensitive tissue of a body. The invention provides a variety of approaches to detect whether a measurement head of the spectroscopic system is in a measurement position. The measurement position of the measurement head can effectively be determined by making use of e.g. a pressure sensor, a sensor measuring the electric resistance of the skin of the patient, or even by optical means analyzing the intensity or the spatial structure of a monitoring beam providing a visual image of the volume of interest. | 10-09-2008 |
20080262324 | Measurement Head For Non-Invasive Blood Analysis - The present invention provides an efficient approach of attaching and fixing a measurement head for a spectroscopic system to a variety of different parts of the skin of a patient. The measurement head preferably features a compact design providing a flexible handling and offering a huge variety of application areas taking into account the plurality of properties of various portions of the skin. Furthermore, the measurement head features a robust and uncomplicated optical design not requiring a lateral shifting of the optical axis of the objective. Such transverse relative movements between the objective and a capillary vessel in the skin are preferably performed by mechanically shifting the skin with respect to the objective of the measurement head. Moreover, the measurement head is adapted to host one or more pressure sensors measuring the contact pressure between the measurement head and the skin. This pressure information can further be exploited in order to calibrate the spectroscopic analysis means, to regulate the contact pressure within predefined margins specifying an optimum range of contact pressure for spectroscopic examination of capillary vessels. | 10-23-2008 |
20080278727 | Device For Imaging an Interior of a Turbid Medium - The invention relates to a device for imaging an interior of a turbid medium. Said device ( | 11-13-2008 |
20080285812 | Personal Identification Method and Apparatus - The invention relates to a personal identification method and to a corresponding apparatus. Their elements are mainly a light source emitting a beam of light towards a target, a first imaging module receiving a return beam coming back from said target and displaying an image of the target of a first type, and a second imaging module also receiving said return beam and displaying an image of the target of a second type. An identification module allows to combine the information given by said image of a first type and said image of a second type and to identify, or not, a person according to a similarity criterion. | 11-20-2008 |
20080285823 | Device for Imaging an Interior of a Turbid Medium - The invention relates to a device ( | 11-20-2008 |
20080290256 | Method and Device for Imaging an Interior of a Turbid Medium - The invention relates to a method and device ( | 11-27-2008 |
20080300472 | Method and Device for Optical Imaging of a Turbid Medium - Disclosed is a method and a device for optical imaging of a turbid medium. This method comprises a reference measurement of reference intensities of light emanating from the turbid medium at a reference blood oxygen saturation (SaO2) in the turbid medium and a reference imaging step for reconstructing a reference image of the turbid medium from the measured reference intensities. Furthermore the method comprises a contrast measurement of the contrast intensity of the light emanating from the turbid medium at a contrast blood oxygen saturation (SaO2) level in the turbid medium and a contrast imaging step for reconstructing a contrast image of the turbid medium from the measured contrast intensities. A comparison is made between the contrast image to the reference image of the turbid medium. | 12-04-2008 |
20080309940 | Method of, System For, and Medical Image Acquisition System For Imaging an Interior of a Turbid Medium Taking Into Account the Geometry of the Turbid Medium - The invention relates to a method of imaging an interior of a turbid medium ( | 12-18-2008 |
20080309941 | Method of, System for, and Medical Image Acquisition System for Imaging an Interior of a Turbid Medium Taking Into Account the Geometry of the Turbid Medium - The invention relates to a method of imaging an interior of a turbid medium ( | 12-18-2008 |
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20090046291 | DEVICE FOR IMAGING AN INTERIOR OF A TURBID MEDIUM - The invention relates to a device ( | 02-19-2009 |
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20090326385 | OBTAINING OPTICAL TISSUE PROPERTIES - This application describes a medical device ( | 12-31-2009 |
20100002233 | IMAGING OF TURBID MEDIUM - The invention relates to imaging of a turbid medium, for example in connection with optical mammography. A device for imaging a turbid medium ( | 01-07-2010 |
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