Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mammography apparatus capable of lessening an impact on the accuracy of interior information due to differences in shapes or sizes of a breast.SOLUTION: A mammography apparatus 1 for illuminating the breast B of a subject A with light, and acquires information of the interior of the breast B by detecting diffuse light, includes a container 3 surrounding the breast B, and a plurality of optical fibers 11 attached toward the inner side of the container 3 and carrying out illumination and detection of the light. The container 3 includes a base member 30 having an opening 30a, a plurality of ring-shaped members 40 communicating with the opening 30a and positioned in series, and a bottom part member 50 positioned on the inner side of the ring-shaped member 40 the furthest from the base member 30. Each ring-shaped member 40 and the bottom part member 50 are configured to be relatively displaceable in the communication direction of either the ring-shaped member 40 adjacent to the base member 30 side or the base member 30. At least part of the plurality of the optical fibers 11 are attached to the plurality of the ring-shaped members 40.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To measure a series of gas samples and to perform measurement for investigating the progress with the elapse of time of the absorbance of a specific liquid. SOLUTION: This measuring instrument of the absorbance of a liquid sample is equipped with the body for housing a reaction container which houses the liquid sample to be analyzed, and the body has a means for passing a light signal having a controlled wavelength through the reaction container and is equipped with a means for guiding the light signal to a scanning head for capturing the light signal by a single CCD sensor, to constitute a digital processing system for measuring the absorbance of the corresponding sample. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for imaging cells. Quantitative phase imaging uses variations in the index of refraction of a sample as a source of endogenous contrast, providing label-free information of sub-cellular structures and allowing for the reconstruction of valuable biophysical parameters, such as cell dry-mass at femtogram scales, mass transport, and sample thickness and fluctuations at nanometer scales. As a result, QPI has become a valuable tool in biology and medicine. However, QPI has suffered from the need for trans-illumination through relatively thin objects in order to gain access to the forward-scattered field, which carries crucial low spatial frequency information of a sample and avoid contributions from multiple scattered light or out-of-focus planes. The disclosed methods and systems can provide for reconstruction of QPI and corresponding analysis for imaging samples of cells in thick samples using an epi-illumination configuration.