Abstract:
In the light source unit 3A, a switching filter section 14, which can switch the RGB filter for normal-light observation and a filter for fluorescent observation on the optical path, is installed in front of the lamp 12, where if the fluorescent image mode is selected, the excitation light in a part of the blue wavelength band is supplied to the electronic endoscope 2A, and the excitation light reflected by the subject side is shielded by the excitation light cut filter 27 in front of the CCD 28 so as to obtain the fluorescent image, and also the signal of the fluorescent image and the signals of the two reflected light images which are set in a predetermined wavelength band are passed through the image processing circuit 38, where a matrix circuit for appropriately allocating the color signals of the R, G and B channels is installed, and as a result, the images can be displayed on the monitor 5 in pseudo-colors in hues which allow easy identification of a normal tissue and a pathologically affected tissue.
Abstract:
In a light source unit, a switchable filter section in which an RGB filter and a fluorescence observation filter can be shifted into the light path is disposed in front of a lamp. When fluorescence image mode is selected, excitation light in a part of the wavelength band of the blue wavelength band is supplied to an electronic endoscope, and the excitation light which is reflected by the subject is shielded by an excitation light shielding filter situated in front of a CCD, whereby a fluorescence image can be obtained. On the other hand, if normal-light image mode is selected, then R, G, B light is supplied sequentially, and even under illumination of B light, the color component image in the wavelength bands which are not shielded by the excitation light shielding filter are captured, thereby yielding a normal-light image also, and hence making it possible to capture both a fluorescence image and a normal-light image by means of a single image pickup element.
Abstract:
In the light source unit 3A, a switching filter section 14, which can switch the RGB filter for normal-light observation and a filter for fluorescent observation on the optical path, is installed in front of the lamp 12, where if the fluorescent image mode is selected, the excitation light in a part of the blue wavelength band is supplied to the electronic endoscope 2A, and the excitation light reflected by the subject side is shielded by the excitation light cut filter 27 in front of the CCD 28 so as to obtain the fluorescent image, and also the signal of the fluorescent image and the signals of the two reflected light images which are set in a predetermined wavelength band are passed through the image processing circuit 38, where a matrix circuit for appropriately allocating the color signals of the R, G and B channels is installed, and as a result, the images can be displayed on the monitor 5 in pseudo-colors in hues which allow easy identification of a normal tissue and a pathologically affected tissue.
Abstract:
In a pericardioscopic procedure, without providing an endoscope or surgical instrument with special space ensuring means and without unnecessarily dilating the pericardial space, a space necessary for operation of the endoscope or surgical instrument is ensured, so that maneuverability is improved while suppressing complications. Provided is a space ensuring device comprising: a pericardium pressing part for pressing a pericardium from the pericardial space side; a heart pressing part for pressing the surface of a heart from the pericardial space side; and an interconnecting part interconnecting the pericardium pressing part and the heart pressing part, wherein the interconnecting part generates the resilient force enabling expansion against a pressure applied by a pericardium and a heart so as to ensure a space between the pericardium pressing part and the heart pressing part.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and visually recognize peripheral parts of teeth without affecting image quality of a fluorescence image obtained by imaging faint fluorescence from a lesion part such as caries existing in the teeth.SOLUTION: A teeth observation device 1 includes: an excitation light source 6 that generates excitation light with a wavelength in a near-infrared region; a visible light source 8 that generates visible light with a wavelength in a visible region; a light illumination section 3 that irradiates the same positions of the teeth with the excitation light from the excitation light source 6 and the visible light from the visible light source 8; an excitation light cut filter 13 that transmits the fluorescence generated from a fluorescence probe applied to the teeth A by excitation light illumination, while blocking light of a band including the wavelength of the excitation light and equal to/shorter than the wavelength of the excitation light; an imaging section 14 that operates in synchronization with the excitation light source 6 and that images the fluorescence transmitted through the excitation light cut filter 13; and a control section 5 that performs control so as not to irradiate the teeth A with the visible light from the visible light source 8 in an imaging period in which the fluorescence is imaged by the imaging section 14.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To conduct highly accurate color correction so that color information also matches on different side surfaces of the same tooth such as the buccal surface and the occlusal surface.SOLUTION: A dental image processor 5 comprises: a memory 8 for storing position information of a reference region having a color correlation with standard color information, which is the color information acquired in another region of either the occlusal surface or the buccal surface, the reference region being a region on an image Gconstituting a correction target acquired for either the occlusal surface or the buccal surface of the tooth; a reference color information extraction unit 9 for extracting the reference color information, which is the color information in the reference region of the image G; a correction coefficient calculation unit 10 for calculating the correction coefficients which match the reference color information extracted by the reference color information extraction unit 9 to the standard color information; and a color information correction unit 11 for correcting the color information of the image Gby using the correction coefficients calculated by the correction coefficient calculation unit 10.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an endoscope image processor, an endoscope image displaying system, and an endoscope image processing method by which distortion of a peripheral image is corrected to easily find out affected region while improving visibility of the center image of an endoscope image acquired by an endoscope with a wide viewing angle. SOLUTION: The endoscope image processor 2 includes: an image separation part 4 to separate an endoscope image acquired by an endoscope capable of wide angle photographing into the center image and a hollow peripheral image around the center image; a peripheral image division part 5 to divide the peripheral image separated from the center image by the image separation part 4 in the circumferential direction to generate a plurality of sectorial peripheral image pieces; and an image correction part 6 to correct the distortion so that the length dimension in the circumferential direction of each peripheral image piece generated by the periphery image division part 5 becomes almost equal to the length dimension of the maximum width dimension of the center image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the maneuverability in a pericardioscopic procedure while suppressing complications such as cardiac tamponade, by ensuring a space necessary for operation of an endoscope or surgical instrument without providing the endoscope or surgical instrument with special space ensuring means and without unnecessarily dilating a pericardial space. SOLUTION: A space ensuring device 1 may be deformable between a contracted state in which the space ensuring device can be accommodated inside a guide tube 8 that is inserted into the pericardial space C and an expanded state in which the space ensuring device is released out of the guide tube 8 and is thereby expanded. The device is formed of an elastic material that generates the resilient force enabling expansion against a pressure applied by a pericardium B and a heart A, and has a shape in the expanded state to ensure a space 7 inside which is opened to the surface of the heart A and can be entered from outside. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dental colorimetric device capable of selecting therapeutic supporting information of prosthetic material and the like suitable for the color of patient's teeth. SOLUTION: The dental colorimetric device includes a color sample information storage section 114, where a plurality of information groups including colorimetric information, which, while having stereoscopic teeth figuration, is acquired from denture mold color samples with layered structure responding to the sites and therapeutic supporting information are memorized according to the sites, an imagery data acquisition section for acquiring imagery data of patient's teeth, a site setting section 81 for configuring target sites, a comparative information extraction section 82 for extracting the information group coordinated with target sites, a teeth information extraction section 83 for extracting colorimetric information for target sites based on the imagery data of patient's teeth, a color comparison section 84 for comparing colorimetric information extracted of a plurality of information groups with colorimetric information of target sites of patient's teeth, and an information selecting section 85 selecting at least one information group based on comparison result. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical imaging device which provides quickly and surely a tomographic image, even when a kind of an optical probe is replaced to be used. SOLUTION: This optical imaging device is provided with: a first propagation time changing means connected to any of optical probe parts attached to the optical imaging device, for making a low-interfering light returned from a specimen interfere with a reference light, and for changing periodically a propagation time corresponding to a prescribed scanning range to scan an interference position axially with respect to an optical axis; a second propagation time changing means for changing a propagation time corresponding to an optical path length capable of absorbing a dispersion of the optical path length in any of the optical probe parts attached to the optical imaging device; and an optical delay part in which a plurality of different optical paths are set in response to the kinds of the plurality of the kinds of optical probe parts different each other in the optical path lengths, and the optical path length is switchable according to the kind of optical probe part attached to the optical imaging device. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT