Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photoacoustic image generation apparatus and acoustic wave unit
- Patent Title (中): 光声图像生成装置和声波单元
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Application No.: US14167785Application Date: 2014-01-29
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Publication No.: US09380944B2Publication Date: 2016-07-05
- Inventor: Kazuhiro Hirota , Tadashi Kasamatsu
- Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
- Current Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JP2011-166977 20110729; JP2012-160426 20120719
- Main IPC: A61B5/00
- IPC: A61B5/00 ; A61B5/145 ; H01S3/092 ; H01S3/106 ; H01S3/11 ; H01S3/16 ; H01S3/102

Abstract:
A pulse laser beam is emitted in a desired wavelength sequence using a laser source unit. A Q switch and a birefringent filter are inserted into an optical resonator including a pair of mirrors and facing each other with a laser rod interposed therebetween. The birefringent filter changes an oscillation wavelength of the optical resonator in association with rotational displacement. A trigger control circuit rotates the birefringent filter at a predetermined rotation speed depending on the number of wavelengths included in the wavelength sequence of the pulse laser beam to be emitted. In addition, the trigger control circuit irradiates the laser rod with excitation light, and turns on the Q switch at a timing when a rotational displacement position of the birefringent filter is set to a position corresponding to the wavelength of the pulse laser beam to be emitted, to cause the pulse laser beam to be emitted.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140148681A1 Photoacoustic image generation apparatus and acoustic wave unit Public/Granted day:2014-05-29
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