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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus, an imaging system, a surgical navigation system, and an imaging method capable of imaging an image of a subject including a phosphor with a high degree of accuracy and in a short exposure time.SOLUTION: An imaging apparatus comprises: a first illumination part 22 that irradiates a subject 2 including a phosphor 1 with visible light 5; a second illumination part 23 that irradiates the subject 2 with exciting light 6; an imaging part 3 including a plurality of imaging elements that can respectively generate image signals based on injected light and an output part that respectively reads image signals from a plurality of the imaging elements and outputs image information based on each of the read image signals; a spectral element that disperses the visible light 5 to a plurality of component lights; and control means for irradiating the subject 2 while switching the visible light 5 to the exciting light 6 or vice versa, switching the image information of the visible light 5 based on each image signal of a plurality of the imaging elements to which each component light of the visible light 5 was injected to the image information of fluorescent light based on the image signals of at least one imaging element to which fluorescent light was injected or vice versa, and outputting the image information.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device, method and program for acquisition of a sample image, capable of improving the accuracy of detection. SOLUTION: The device includes an image sensor 15 for forming the image of a sample SPL expanded by an objective lens 12A, a movement controller for moving, in different directions at the same position of the optical axis direction, the relative position of the surface direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction between the image sensor and the image of the sample expanded by the objective lens imaged by the image sensor while moving the focus of the objective lens to the optical axis direction in the range including the sample, and a sample image acquisition unit for acquiring the sample image by exposing the image sensor during the movement by the movement controller. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for a microscope system or the like capable of automatically correcting spherical aberration. SOLUTION: The microscope system 100 includes a housing device 10 in which a plurality of specimens 1 are housed, a microscope device 20 which acquires image data of the specimen 1, a display device 61 which displays an image of the specimen 1 (sample 2), and a controller 50 which unitary controls the respective devices. The microscope device 20 has a high-magnification image acquiring part 21 acquiring a high-magnification image of the specimen 1. The high-magnification image acquiring part 21 includes a high-magnification optical system 22 having a condenser lens 27, spherical aberration correction lenses 28 and 29, and an imaging lens 24. The spherical aberration correction lenses 28 and 29 are held to be movable along an optical axis by a lens moving mechanism 30. A main controller 51 controls the lens moving mechanism 30 to move the spherical aberration correction lenses 28 and 29 along the optical axis, so as to correct the spherical aberration. Thus, the spherical aberration is automatically corrected. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To acquire a precise magnified image while improving usability. SOLUTION: The tissue-slice image acquirement method acquires a precise dark field magnified image while improving the usability by accurately acquiring a profile shape of a tissue-section portion in a bright field thumbnail image by: correcting the profile shape of the tissue-section portion in a dark field thumbnail image based on the bright field thumbnail image; acquiring a dark field magnified image by using that profile shape; and then, displaying the bright field thumbnail image and the dark field magnified image together. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide: a fluorescent-image acquisition apparatus for keeping a certain counting accuracy of a fluorescence marker while reducing the data capacity; a fluorescent-image acquisition method; and a fluorescent-image acquisition program.SOLUTION: A stage movement control part 42 moves a movable stage 11 in the Z-axis direction (optical axis direction of an objective lens 12A), and moves the focal point for a sample part in the thickness direction. A fluorescent-image acquisition part 43 exposes an imaging element 30 from the start of the moving of the movable stage 11 in the Z-axis direction (optical axis direction) until its completion, and acquires a fluorescent image of the sample part obtained by the exposure at the completion from the imaging element 30.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate a vivid image of a viable tissue. SOLUTION: The image generating device 1 generates a standard image P1 and another captured image PC2 by connecting a standard captured image PC1 and another captured image PC2 at a standard position Z1 and another position Z2 on respective image capturing points QC. The image generating device 1 decides whether air bubbles BB are contained in embedding material 103 based on the standard image P1, and generates the image PR of the viable tissue by replacing the standard image P1 with another image P2 on a part in which the air bubbles are contained. Thus, the image generating device 1 generates the image PR of the viable tissue nearly vivid as a whole. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a biometric authentication device for achieving both reduction in thickness of the device and improvement in authentication accuracy. SOLUTION: A light source driving section 171 drives a light source section 11 so that each unit light source in the light source 110 section 11 periodically illuminates by time division. An imaging device driving device 172 drives an imaging element 13 so that, while an imaging operation by a group of imaging cells (a first imaging cell group) located near each illuminating unit light source 110 is suspended, an imaging operation by a group of imaging cells (a second imaging cell group) located farther from each illuminating unit light source than the first imaging cell group is performed. Thereby, reception of reflected light on a surface of a living body 2 to be a noise component is suppressed. Further, the light source section 11 and the imaging device 13 are arranged on the same side with respect to the cover glass 12. An overall thickness of the device is reduced compared to when they are arranged to face each other with respect to the cover glass 12. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a biosensor rich in mass productivity, and which is capable of readily realizing a fine structure. SOLUTION: A microring resonator 32 is formed by arranging an optical waveguide 33 on a resonance-coupling position with an incidence-side optical waveguide 30a or a separation side optical waveguide 30b which does not have wavelength selectivity. A hole 34 enterable by a detection object material is provided in a part of the optical waveguide 33. When there is no material inside the hole 34, a loss of the microring resonator 32 is large, and the intensity of separation light Ld is small and a greater part turns into a linearly advancing light Lc. When a material exists inside the hole 34, the loss of the microring resonator 32 is small, and the greater part becomes the separation light Ld and the linearly advancing light Lc is reduced. Incident light L, having a prescribed wavelength including resonance light Lb, is allowed to enter the incidence-side optical waveguide 30a, and each intensity of the linearly advancing light Lc, propagating along the incident side optical waveguide 30a and/or the separation light Ld based on resonance coupling by the microring resonator 32, is detected, to thereby determine whether the detection object material exists in the hole 34 or not. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inexpensively perform the detection of light guided through an optical waveguide on a semiconductor substrate. SOLUTION: An optical waveguide (thick portion) 61 is formed on a silicon layer 13 sandwiched by insulation films 12, 14. A light-receiving element 70 is composed of a PDSOI transistor (MOS transistor) in which a gate electrode 72 is formed on the surface of a p-type silicon layer 15 used as a channel body via a gate insulation film 71, and a source diffusion layer 73 and a drain diffusion layer 74 are formed to a depth reaching the insulation film 14. When light is guided through the optical waveguide 61, carriers are generated by a TPA (two portion absorption) phenomenon of the light, and holes remain in the channel body of the PDSOI transistor. The remaining holes are detected by the PDSOI transistor, thereby detecting light guided through the optical waveguide 61. Thus, the PDSOI transistor can be inexpensively manufactured in a usual CMOS process. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the reduction of holes accumulated in a channel body during reading/writing operations of the other memory cell. SOLUTION: A semiconductor device is composed by using a double SOI substrate having insulating films 12, 14. A silicon layer 15 is made as the channel body so as to form a gate electrode 45 on the surface of the silicon layer 15 via a gate insulating film 44. A source diffusion layer 46 and a drain diffusion layer 47 are formed at a depth reaching the insulating layer 14 so as to obtain a memory cell MC. A contact plug 48 for applying a substrate bias voltage to a silicon layer 13 is embedded as in a state of penetrating the silicon layer 15 and the insulating film 14. The substrate bias voltage is applied to the silicon layer 13 corresponding to each memory cell MC by a word line unit. A local insulating film 50 is formed extendingly in a word line direction so as to separate the silicon layer 13 corresponding to each memory cell MC by a word line unit. The substrate bias voltage is set to a value capable of preventing the reduction of the holes accumulated in the channel body during non-writing and during non-reading. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT