DEVICE TO DETECT MALIGNANT PROCESSES IN LIVING ORGANISMS

• US 20100103252A1
• Filed: 03/14/2008
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Advanced Bioresearch And Technology S. A.
• Original Assignee: Advanced Bioresearch And Technology S. A.
• Inventors: Shaduri, Marina
• Granted Patent: US 9,289,152 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/77
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0059 using light, e.g. diagnosis by transillumination, diascopy, fluorescence A61B5/0093, A61B5/1455, A61B5/02416 and A61B5/0261 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/05 Detecting, measuring or recording for diagnosis by means of electric currents or magnetic fields; Measuring using microwaves or radio waves impedance plethysmography A61B5/0295; measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof A61B5/11; detecting, measuring or recording bioelectric or biomagnetic signals of the body or parts thereof A61B5/24
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/415 the glands, e.g. tonsils, adenoids or thymus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/418 lymph vessels, ducts or nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

The invention relates to electronics and biomedicine and it can be used to evaluate some characteristics of dynamic systems, e.g. to detect (or exclude) malignant processes in organism via gas-discharge imaging of a body parts under certain fitted conditions and further computerized processing of the images so obtained. A device for the gas-discharge detection of malignant processes in living organisms, which comprises an optically transparent electrode for generating an electric field, a dielectric for electrical insulation of an object under examination, this dielectric being capable to be mounted on an optically transparent electrode and comprising three successive layers, each one in contact with adjacent one: a rigid transparent electrically-insulating layer capable to be arranged in surfacing contact with the optically transparent electrode, a flexible transparent membrane positioned on the free surface of the rigid transparent electrically-insulating layer; a dark opaque flexible membrane positioned on the free surface of the transparent membrane to absorb spurious light reflected from the object'"'"'s surface; and the image-receiving camera being a progressive-scan monochrome camera positioned beneath the optically transparent electrode to generate continuous analog video signal to be sent to a computer for further processing.

Claims

1. A device for the gas-discharge detection of malignant processes in living organisms, which comprises an optically transparent electrode for generating an electric field, a dielectric for electrical insulation of an object under examination, and an image-receiving camera is distinct in that the dielectric consists of three components:

a rigid transparent electrically-insulating layer with an elastic transparent object-imaging membrane tightly positioned on its top which, in turn, is covered with a third layer of a dark opaque elastic membrane serving to absorb spurious light reflected from the object'"'"'s surface and the image-receiving television camera being a progressive-scan monochrome camera positioned below the optically transparent electrode, which enables to generate continuous analog video signal to be sent to a computer for further processing.

2. The device according to claim 1 is distinct in that the image-receiving television camera is replaced by a digital photographic camera generating discrete single images in digital presentation to be sent to a computer for further processing.