Abstract:
The invention relates to a multi-spectral image sensor having a two-dimensional array of super-pixels, wherein each super-pixel has at least five sensor elements (11), each comprising a pixel sensor (14), a filter structure (12) having at least one structured layer made of metal or polycrystalline semi-conductor material, which, in response to the electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength region, results in a higher transmission through the filter structure to the pixel sensor (14) than wavelengths surrounding the wavelength region, wherein the at least five sensor elements (12) are jointly integrated on a semi-conductor substrate (16) and are configured on different wavelength regions in pairs.
Abstract:
Es wird bereitgestellt ein Optiksystem, insbesondere Mikroskop, mit einer Optikeinheit (17) und einem Kollimator (1), der in einem Strahlengang des Optiksystems der Optikeinheit (17) vor- oder nachgeordnet ist, wobei die Optikeinheit (17) einem dem Strahlengang zugeführten Strahlenbündel einen vorbestimmten Farblängsfehter einprägt und das Strahlenbündel auf den Kollimator (1) als divergierendes oder paralleles Strahlenbündel trifft und von diesem in ein paralleles oder konvergierendes Strahlenbündel umgewandelt wird, wobei der Kollimator (1) zumindest eine Linse (L) sowie einen gekrümmten Spiegel (4) aufweist, der den Strahlengang so faltet, daß das zugeführte Strahlenbündel die Linse (4) zweimal durchläuft.
Abstract:
The spectroscopy module 1 is provided with a body portion 2 for transmitting light L1, L2, a spectroscopic portion 3 for dispersing light L1 made incident from the front plane 2a of the body portion 2 into the body portion 2 to reflect the light on the front plane 2a, a lisht detecting element 4 having a lisht detecting portion 41 for detecting the light L2 dispersed and reflected by the spectroscopic portion 3 and electrically connected to a wiring 9 formed on the front plane 2a of the body portion 2 by face-down bonding, and an underfill material 12 filled in the body portion 2 side of the lisht detecting element 4 to transmit the light L1, L2. The lisht detecting element 4 is provided with a light-passing hole 42 through which the light L1 advancing into the spectroscopic portion 3 passes, and a raised portion 43 in a rectangular annular shape is formed on a rear plane 4a of the body portion 2 side in the lisht detecting element 4 so as to enclose a light outgoing opening 42b of the light-passing hole 42.
Abstract:
A device (100) for determining the surface topology and associated colour of a structure (26), such as a teeth segment, includes a scanner (100,1525) for providing depth data for points along a two-dimensional array substantially orthogonal to the depth direction, and an image acquisition means (68) for providing colour data for each of the points of the array, while the spatial disposition of the device with respect to the structure is maintained substantially unchanged. A processor (24) combines the colour data and depth data for each point in the array, thereby providing a three-dimensional colour virtual model of the surface of the structure. A corresponding method for determining the surface topology and associated colour of a structure is also provided.
Abstract:
A device for determining the surface topology and associated colour of a structure, such as a teeth segment, includes a scanner for providing depth data for points along a two-dimensional array substantially orthogonal to the depth direction, and an image acquisition means for providing colour data for each of the points of the array, while the spatial disposition of the device with respect to the structure is maintained substantially unchanged. A processor combines the colour data and depth data for each point in the array, thereby providing a three-dimensional colour virtual model of the surface of the structure. A corresponding method for determining the surface topology and associated colour of a structure is also provided.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a new method and device for disease detection, more particularly cancer detection, from the analysis of diffuse reflectance spectra measured in vivo during endoscopic imaging. The measured diffuse reflectance spectra are analyzed using a specially developed light-transport model and numerical method to derive quantitative parameters related to tissue physiology and morphology. The method also corrects the effects of the specular reflection and the varying distance between endoscope tip and tissue surface on the clinical reflectance measurements. The model allows us to obtain the absorption coefficient (μa) and further to derive the tissue micro-vascular blood volume fraction and the tissue blood oxygen saturation parameters. It also allows us to obtain the scattering coefficients (μs and g) and further to derive the tissue micro-particles volume fraction and size distribution parameters.
Abstract:
A photodiode array, having a plurality of photodiodes 12 (n-type channel regions 121), and a light entrance portion 13, formed of an opening that is used to make light to be detected by photodiodes 12 enter, are provided in a substrate 10 of a photodetector 1A having an n-type substrate 101 and a p-type epitaxial layer 102. Furthermore, a carrier capturing portion 60, for capturing carriers generated at a substrate portion near the light entrance portion 13 and removes the captured carriers to the exterior via an electrode 61, is arranged from a layer portion of the epitaxial layer 102 that is positioned between the photodiode array 11 and the light entrance portion 13. A photodetector of a simple arrangement, which, when applied to a spectrometer, enables the positioning precision of components of the spectrometer to be improved, and a spectrometer using this photodetector are thus realized.
Abstract:
A method for providing data useful in procedures associated with the oral cavity, in which at least one numerical entity representative of the three-dimensional surface geometry and colour of at least part of the intra-oral cavity is provided and then manipulated to provide desired data therefrom.
Abstract:
A small-spot imaging, spectrometry instrument (Fig. 1) for measuring properties of a sample (27) has a polarization-scrambling element, such as a Lyot depolarizer (19), incorporatied between the polarization-introducing components of the system, such as the beamsplitter (17), and the microscope objective (21) of the system. The Lyot depolarizer varies polarization with wavelength. Sinusoidal perturbation in the resulting measured spectrum can be removed by data processing techniques or, if the depolarizer is thick or highly birefringent,l may be narrower than the wavelength resolution of the instrument.