- Patent Title: Fluorescence imaging apparatus for identifying fluorescence region based on specified processing condition and superimposing fluorescence region at corresponding region in return-light image
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Application No.: US14033687Application Date: 2013-09-23
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Publication No.: US09949645B2Publication Date: 2018-04-24
- Inventor: Hiromi Shida , 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: JP2011-080633 20110331
- Main IPC: A61B6/00
- IPC: A61B6/00 ; A61B5/00 ; A61B1/00 ; A61B1/04 ; G02B23/24

Abstract:
A fluorescence imaging apparatus including: a processor comprising hardware, configured to: specify a processing condition to be used to process a fluorescence image in accordance with treatment-details information indicating specifics of a treatment to be performed on a biological tissue; in a case where a first processing condition is specified, identify a first fluorescence region in the fluorescence image having a predetermined first fluorescence intensity based on the first processing condition; in a case where a second processing condition is specified, identify a second fluorescence region in the fluorescence image having a predetermined second fluorescence intensity based on the second processing condition; and generate a superimposed image by superimposing the first fluorescence region or the second fluorescence region that is identified, with a return-light image at a region in the return-light image corresponding to the first fluorescence region or the second fluorescence region, respectively, that is identified.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140024948A1 FLUOROSCOPY APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2014-01-23
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