Surgery – Endoscope – Having imaging and illumination means
Patent
1998-06-24
2000-08-29
Leubecker, John P.
Surgery
Endoscope
Having imaging and illumination means
600160, A61B 106
Patent
active
061101060
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and methods that permit the direct viewing of induced tissue fluorescence or other response by a human viewer through an endoscope without the need for bulky and expensive auxiliary apparatus such as imaging devices, sensor arrays, analyzing systems and computer hardware and software. The apparatus and methods provide an excitation energy, such as blue light, that is transmitted to the target, and then the endoscope collects the emitted response, which is typically fluorescent light of a wavelength longer than the UV or blue light used to induce the fluorescence. The endoscope then transmits the response through a series of filters in the endoscope and directly to the eye of a human user.
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MacKinnon Nicholas B.
Whitehead Peter D.
Biomax Technologies Inc.
Blaise Brad C.
Leubecker John P.
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