Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fluoroscopy apparatus, fluoroscopy system, and fluorescence-image processing method
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Application No.: US13834395Application Date: 2013-03-15
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Publication No.: US08693802B2Publication Date: 2014-04-08
- Inventor: Toshiaki Watanabe , Yasushige Ishihara
- Applicant: Olympus Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JP2009-072852 20090324
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00

Abstract:
A fluoroscopy apparatus including: an illumination unit having a light source radiating illumination light and excitation light onto an observation target, a fluorescence-imaging unit acquiring a fluorescence image by imaging fluorescence generated at the observation target by the excitation light, a white-light-imaging unit acquiring a reference image by imaging light returning from the observation target by the illumination light, and an image-correction unit obtaining a correction fluorescence image by raising the luminance value of the fluorescence image to the power of a reciprocal of a first and second exponent obtained by a power approximation of a distance characteristic of luminance versus observation distance, for the fluorescence image, and that obtains a corrected fluorescence image by dividing the correction fluorescence image by the correction reference image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130200273A1 Fluoroscopy Apparatus, Fluoroscopy System, and Fluorescence-Image Processing Method Public/Granted day:2013-08-08
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