Abstract:
Provided is an illumination optical system for endoscope having high light utilization efficiency. The illumination optical system for endoscope which is provided in contact with an end surface of a light guide at a distal end portion of an insertion part of an endoscope, includes a diffusion plate that is provided on the end surface of the light guide and that diffuses light from the light guide, in which the diffusion plate has a diffusion surface that is formed on a surface on a side of the light guide and a light guide unit that guides light diffused on the diffusion surface, the diffusion surface consists of a holographic diffusion plate, and the light guide unit consists of sapphire glass.
Abstract:
A band limiter comprises an optical filter, which has first and second filter sections, and a filter moving mechanism for moving the optical filter to place the first or second filter section in a light path of blue light. A passband where transmittance of the first filter section is greater than or equal to half a peak value thereof is defined as a first transmission band. The first transmission band includes a peak wavelength, at which an absorption coefficient of hemoglobin is at its peak. A passband where transmittance of the second filter section is greater than or equal to half a peak value thereof is defined as a second transmission band. The second transmission band does not include an isosbestic wavelength (in the order of 450 nm), at which an absorption coefficient of oxyhemoglobin equals or crosses an absorption coefficient of deoxyhemoglobin.
Abstract:
The invention provides an endoscope system for the early detection of suture failure. Parts of the large intestine separated by the resection of a tumor are sutured by using a suturing member 167. A sutured portion is imaged. An oxygen saturation image 180 is generated by imaging the oxygen saturation of the sutured portion based on image information obtained by the imaging. The generated oxygen saturation image 180 is displayed on a display device 14. In the case of suture failure, a low oxygen region 180a is displayed in the oxygen saturation image.
Abstract:
There are provided an endoscope that has sufficient air-tightness and excellent durability and an endoscope in which a reduction in the amount of light is suppressed.An endoscope includes: a light guide that emits incident light from an end portion thereof; a distal end member that is provided at the end portion of the light guide, has a function to propagate the light emitted from the light guide by total reflection, and propagates the light emitted from the light guide and emits the light from a distal end face thereof; and an imaging unit that uses the light emitted from the distal end member to image an object to be observed. The distal end member includes a light guide member made of glass.
Abstract:
There is provided an endoscope system capable of maintaining a constant light amount ratio for each wavelength of light emitted from an endoscope.The endoscope system has: an endoscope that has a light guide; two or more light sources that supply light to the light guide and have different main wavelengths; a light source driving unit that supplies a driving signal to each of the light sources; a light source control unit that makes the light source driving unit generate a driving signal corresponding to the light amount setting value; and a light source information storage unit that stores information of the main wavelength. The endoscope has a scope information storage unit that stores information of a scope type. The light source control unit adjusts a light amount ratio of the light source to a preset light amount ratio by acquiring the information of the main wavelength of the light source from the light source information storage unit, acquiring the information of the scope type from the scope information storage unit, setting the light amount setting value according to at least the information of the main wavelength and information of a length of the light guide obtained from the information of the scope type, and inputting the light amount setting value to the light source driving unit to control a light emission amount of the light source driven by the light source driving unit.
Abstract:
A light source apparatus for supplying a light guide device incorporated in an endoscope with a light beam is provided. A light emitting device of semiconductor, for example, laser diode generates the light beam. A light homogenizer homogenizes irradiance distribution of the light beam in a radial direction. A short focus lens is disposed between the light homogenizer and the light guide device, for enlarging a divergence angle of the light beam. Furthermore, the light homogenizer is a transparent light guide rod disposed to extend in an optical axis direction of the light beam. A diameter of the light homogenizer is constant in an optical axis direction thereof. The diameter of the light homogenizer is equal to or less than a diameter of the short focus lens.
Abstract:
A fluorescent type of green light source of a semiconductor in a light source apparatus for an endoscope includes a blue excitation light source device and green emitting phosphor. The blue excitation light source device emits blue excitation light. The green emitting phosphor is excited by the blue excitation light, and emits green fluorescence. A dichroic filter in a dichroic mirror cuts off the blue excitation light from an emission spectrum of mixed light of the blue excitation light and green fluorescence from the fluorescent type of green light source. Thus, illumination light with the emission spectrum of a target can be stably supplied without influence of the blue excitation light to a light amount of blue light from a blue light source of a semiconductor.
Abstract:
There are provided a light source device, which is more compact and inexpensive than a known light source device, and an endoscope system having a compact and inexpensive light source device. In a light source device, a light source unit includes a first light source that emits blue light, a second light source that emits broadband green light including not only a green component but also a red component, and an optical filter that adjusts the amount of broadband green light for each wavelength. The optical filter has a characteristic in which the reflectance of the green component is smaller than the reflectance of the red component in the case of reflecting the broadband green light or a characteristic in which the transmittance of the green component is smaller than the transmittance of the red component in the case of transmitting the broadband green light.
Abstract:
A band limiter comprises an optical filter, which has first and second filter sections, and a filter moving mechanism for moving the optical filter. The first filter section reduces intensity of blue light, which is emitted from a B-LED, in a wavelength range of greater than or equal to a peak wavelength of the blue light to generate first blue light. The second filter section reduces intensity of the blue light in a wavelength range of less than or equal to the peak wavelength of the blue light to generate second blue light. A light source controller places the first filter section in a light path of the blue light in a normal mode to generate the first blue light, and places the second filter section in the light path of the blue light in an oxygen saturation mode to generate the second blue light.
Abstract:
An endoscope system includes a light source unit, a band limiting unit, a light source control unit, an imaging sensor, an imaging control unit, and an oxygen saturation image generation unit. The light source unit includes a V-LED that emits violet light, a B-LED that emits blue light, a G-LED that emits green light, and an R-LED that emits red light. The band limiting unit generates measurement light having a specific wavelength band for measuring the oxygen saturation from the blue light. The light source control unit switches the control of the light source unit between a first light emission mode, in which the observation target is irradiated with the violet light, the measurement light, the green light, and the red light, and a second light emission mode, in which the observation target is irradiated with the measurement light.