Abstract:
The present invention provides an apparatus for photodynamic therapy and fluorescence detection, in which a combined light source is provided to illuminate an object body and a multispectral fluorescence-reflectance image is provided to reproduce various and complex spectral images for an object tissue, thus performing effective photodynamic therapy for various diseases both outside and inside of the body.For this purpose, the present invention provides an apparatus for photodynamic therapy and photodetection, which provides illumination with light of various wavelengths and multispectral images, the apparatus including: an optical imaging system producing an image of an object tissue and transmitting the image to a naked eye or an imaging device; a combined light source including a plurality of coherent and non-coherent light sources and a light guide guiding incident light emitted from the light sources; a multispectral imaging system including at least one image sensor; and a computer system outputting an image of the object tissue to the outside. Thus, the apparatus for photodynamic therapy and photodetection of the present invention can effectively perform the photodynamic therapy and photodetection by means of the combined light source capable of irradiating light having various spectral components to an object tissue and the multispectral imaging system capable of obtaining images from several spectral portions for these various spectral ranges at the same time, thus improving the accuracy of diagnosis and efficiency of the photodynamic therapy.
Abstract:
A solid-state image sensor, which has a two-dimensional matrix of a plurality of pixels used to sense the two-dimensional spatial distribution of radioactive rays, light rays, electrons, ions, or the like, is provided with an aperture that extends through a substrate at an image sensing unit on which the pixels are arranged, and a signal transfer path that connects signal transfer electrodes for reading images of the respective pixels kept clear of the aperture. Furthermore, the image sensing unit is divided into at least two regions by a boundary including the aperture, and these regions have individual signal read registers. With this structure, the image sensor serves as both an image sensor for sensing the two-dimensional distribution of radiation or the like, and an aperture for passing such radiation.
Abstract:
A photometrical apparatus has a first light receiving element, and a second light receiving element less sensitive to temperature and other environmental influences than said first light receiving element whereby a value Pm of measured quantity of light from the subject is calculated from the following formula ##EQU1## Pr designates a quantity of light from a standard light source, Dr and Dm designate outputs of the first light receiving element generated by the light from the standard light source and the subject, Dpo and Dpt designate outputs of the first light receiving element generated by the light from the reference light source and the subject, and Dso and Dst designate outputs of the second light receiving element generated by the light from the reference light source and the subject.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique capable of generating an image of higher color reproducibility while allowing for reduction in time for imaging.SOLUTION: An image capture device 100 comprises: a spectrum measurement unit 120 which measures spectrum features of a photographic subject; a spectrum image capture unit 101 which is capable of separating and photographing a subject image into a plurality of colors and generating plural sets of spectrum images; and a color separation feature determination unit 134 which determines, on the basis of the spectrum features of the photographic subject which are obtained with the spectrum measurement unit 120, the color separation features when the spectrum image capture unit 101 color-separates and photographs, and determines the number of colors in the color separation when the spectrum image capture unit 101 color-separates and photographs and a spectrum band corresponding to each of the plurality of colors.