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| 20100020163 | FLUORESCENCE ENDOSCOPE - A fluorescence endoscope is provided that can easily judge whether body-cavity tissue is benign or malignant when fluorescence generated at the entire inner circumferential face of the body cavity serving as a subject is observed. The fluorescence endoscope includes: an insertion portion ( | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100049058 | FLUORESCENCE ENDOSCOPE AND FLUOROMETRY METHOD - Provided are a fluorescence endoscope and a fluorometry method that allow distinguishing between normal and affected areas in a simple manner by reducing the effect of the distance from a subject. Provided are a light source ( | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100059690 | FLUOROSCOPIC DEVICE AND FLUOROSCOPIC METHOD - A lesion can be made distinctive in an acquired fluorescence image so as to allow for accurate diagnosis. There is provided a fluoroscopic device ( | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100103250 | FLUORESCENCE OBSERVATION APPARATUS AND FLUORESCENCE OBSERVATION METHOD - The diagnosability of diseased parts is improved by precisely correcting fluorescence images without being affected by specular reflection and without being affected by thick blood vessels. Provided is a fluorescence observation apparatus that includes a light source unit that radiates, onto an observation target site, illumination light that is in the wavelength band absorbed by a blood vessel, first excitation light that includes the wavelength band of the illumination light and generates autofluorescence by exciting an autofluorescent substance in the blood vessel, and second excitation light that is in a different wavelength band from the first excitation light and generates agent fluorescence by exciting fluorescent dye that selectively stains normal tissue and abnormal tissue; an image-acquisition unit that obtains respective images by capturing reflected light, autofluorescence, and agent-fluorescence, obtained by radiating the illumination light, and the first and the second excitation light onto the same observation target site; and an image processing unit that extracts a blood-vessel image from the obtained reflected-light image, obtains a reference image by applying interpolation to an area in the autofluorescence image corresponding to the extracted blood-vessel image, and corrects the agent-fluorescence image, obtained by the image-acquisition unit, based on the obtained reference image. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100113876 | ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS AND ENDOSCOPE-IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - An endoscope apparatus including an insertion portion for insertion into a body cavity; an image-acquisition unit disposed at a tip thereof that acquires an image of the inside of the body cavity; an insertion-length measuring unit disposed at a base end of the insertion portion that measures an insertion length of the insertion portion inside the body cavity; a storage unit that stores the image acquired by the image-acquisition unit in association with the insertion length measured by the insertion-length measuring unit; a following decision unit that determines whether insertion movement at the tip follows insertion movement at the base end; and a correcting unit that corrects the insertion length of the insertion portion associated with the acquired image to cancel a change in the insertion length measured in a non-following period on the basis of the result of that determination. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100134607 | ENDOSCOPIC OBSERVATION APPARATUS AND ENDOSCOPIC OBSERVATION METHOD - A quantitative image of a subject is obtained without being influenced by the distance from the subject by accurately measuring the absolute distance between the subject and the tip of a phototransmitter that radiates light onto the subject. There is provided an endoscopic observation apparatus ( | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100210903 | CAPSULE MEDICAL DEVICE AND CAPSULE MEDICAL SYSTEM - Radiation is captured without fail, and a sharp image of a region where radiation is generated is acquired. A capsule medical device ( | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100245550 | FLUOROSCOPY APPARATUS AND FLUOROSCOPY METHOD - Unwanted information contained in a reference image is reduced, thus acquiring a fluorescence image having quantitative intensity information, regardless of the angle and distance of excitation light. The invention provides a fluoroscopy apparatus including an illumination portion that irradiates an observation target with illumination light containing excitation light; a first image-acquisition section that acquires a fluorescence image in a prescribed observation region of the observation target; a second image-acquisition section that acquires an out-of-focus reference image of the observation target in the observation region; and an image correction section that corrects the fluorescence image acquired by the first image-acquisition section using the reference image acquired by the second image-acquisition section. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100245619 | FLUOROSCOPY APPARATUS - A fluoroscopy apparatus includes an illumination portion irradiating an observation target with illumination light; a fluorescence image acquisition device acquires fluorescence emitted from an observation target to acquire a fluorescence image; a fluorescence image-acquisition optical system forms an image of the observation target using the fluorescence; a reference-light image acquisition device acquires returning light from the observation region to acquire a reference image; a reference-light image-acquisition optical system forms an image using the returning light; and an image correction section corrects the fluorescence image by the reference image, wherein the product of an pixel density of the reference-light image acquisition device and the image-forming magnification of the reference-light image-acquisition optical system is less than the product of the pixel density of the fluorescence image acquisition device and the image-forming magnification of the fluorescence image-acquisition optical system. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100324371 | CAPSULE MEDICAL DEVICE, METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME, AND CAPSULE MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEM - The required minimum amount of examination site information is acquired, stored, or transmitted without missing an affected area, thus reducing power consumption, reducing the size of a battery disposed in a capsule, and reducing the size of a casing. Provided is a capsule medical device including a casing having a capsule shape; a light-detecting section, disposed in the casing, for detecting information about the intensity of light from outside the casing; an information-acquiring section for acquiring examination site information from an examination site positioned outside the casing; and a determination section for determining whether or not to acquire, store, or transmit, to the outside, the examination site information acquired by the information-acquiring section on the basis of the information about the intensity of the light detected by the light-detecting section. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110001061 | FLUORESCENCE OBSERVATION APPARATUS - Clearly observing the state of an examination site is made by sufficiently suppressing the influence of residues. Fluorescence observation apparatus includes: a light source emits excitation light for irradiating the vicinity of an examination site; a fluorescence information acquisition unit acquires information about fluorescence emitted from the vicinity of the examination site through the irradiation with the excitation light from the light source; a residue fluorescence information acquisition unit acquires information about fluorescence emitted from residues selectively dyed with a fluorescent dye, through the irradiation with the excitation light from the light source; and a fluorescence information correction unit generates fluorescence information about the examination site in which the fluorescence from the residues is suppressed, based on the fluorescence information from the vicinity of the examination site, acquired by the fluorescence information acquisition unit, and the fluorescence information from the residues, acquired by the residue fluorescence information acquisition unit. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110004064 | CAPSULE MEDICAL DEVICE - A capsule medical device capable of alleviating a burden on a patient is provided. Provided is a capsule medical device that includes a casing having a capsule shape; a measurement-information acquiring section, disposed in the casing, for acquiring measurement information from an examination site positioned outside the casing; a locating-information acquiring section for acquiring information for locating the examination site from which the measurement information has been acquired by the measurement-information acquiring section; and a storage section for storing the measurement information acquired by the measurement-information acquiring section in association with the information for locating the examination site, acquired by the locating-information acquiring section. | 01-06-2011 |
