Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fluorescence biopsy specimen imager and methods
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Application No.: US15352427Application Date: 2016-11-15
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Publication No.: US10254227B2Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Han-Wei Wang
- Applicant: LI-COR, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NE Lincoln
- Assignee: LI-COR, Inc.
- Current Assignee: LI-COR, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NE Lincoln
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: H04N7/18
- IPC: H04N7/18 ; G01N21/64 ; G06T17/20 ; G06T7/00 ; H04N5/225 ; G06T7/55 ; G02B21/36 ; G06T11/60 ; G06T15/20 ; H04N5/33 ; G01N21/17

Abstract:
Biopsy imaging devices with an imaging stage configured to rotate and tilt a biological sample, as well as a method for using it, are described. The stage can use rotating bearings or extendible, telescoping arms. The device has a white light for taking normal pictures and a near-infrared laser light for causing a fluorescence-biomolecule probed sample to fluoresce for fluorescence images in a light-tight housing. A set of both types of pictures are taken from angles around, above, and below the biopsy sample with one or more cameras to generate a 3-D model in a computer of the biopsy with fluorescence markings. The 3-D model can then be rendered and viewed on a display by a surgeon to determine if sufficient margins were removed from the patient.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170059487A1 Fluorescence Biopsy Specimen Imager and Methods Public/Granted day:2017-03-02
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