MEASURING METHOD OF LIFE ACTIVITY, MEASURING DEVICE OF LIFE ACTIVITY, TRANSMISSION METHOD OF LIFE ACTIVITY DETECTION SIGNAL, OR SERVICE BASED ON LIFE ACTIVITY INFORMATION

• US 20130123639A1
• Filed: 11/07/2012
• Published: 05/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hideo Ando
• Original Assignee: Hideo Ando
• Inventors: Ando, Hideo
• Granted Patent: US 9,265,425 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/473
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0242 for varying or adjusting the optical path length in the tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2576/00 Medical imaging apparatus involving image processing or analysis A61B1/00009, A61B6/52 and A61B8/52 take precedence; image processing per se G06T; details of algorithms for analysing medical images G06T7/0012
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0013 Medical image data A61B1/00011, A61B6/56, A61B8/56 take precedence
• 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 5/0068 Confocal scanning
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0075 by spectroscopy, i.e. measuring spectra, e.g. Raman spectroscopy, infrared absorption spectroscopy A61B5/0071 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/40 Detecting, measuring or recording for evaluating the nervous system A61B5/4806, A61B5/4821, A61B5/4824 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4041 Evaluating nerves condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4519 Muscles A61B5/389, A61B5/224 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/486 Bio-feedback A61B5/375 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7228 Signal modulation applied to the input signal sent to patient or subject; demodulation to recover the physiological signal modulation H03C
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7246 using correlation, e.g. template matching or determination of similarity
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 13/00 Indicating or recording presence, absence, or direction, of movement electric switches H01H; counting moving objects G06M7/00

Abstract

According to a measuring method or a control method of life activity, a life object is illuminated with an electromagnetic wave including a wavelength in a designated waveband, and a characteristic in a local area of the life object is detected, or a life activity thereof is controlled. This “local area” is an area constituted by one or more cells. The “designated waveband” is defined based on any one of the following phenomena:

• [1] transition energy between a ground state of a vibration mode newly occurring between atoms in a constituent molecule of a cell membrane and a plurality of excited states;
• [2] transition energy between vibration modes occurring between specific atoms in a molecule corresponding to the activity of the life object or the change thereof; and
• [3] a specific chemical shift value in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

Claims

1. A detecting method of life activity, comprising:

illuminating the life object with an electromagnetic wave of which a wavelength is included in a designated waveband or the wavelength relates to a designated peak; and

detecting the activity at least in a local area in the life object.

4. The detecting method of life activity according to claim 1, wherein:

the designated waveband relates to a wavelength of not less than 0.84 μ

m but not more than 110 μ

m.

5. The detecting method of life activity according to claim 1, wherein

the designated peak relates to a chemical shift value in a range of not less than δ

1.7 ppm but not more than δ

4.5 ppm.

6. The designated method of life activity according to claim 1, wherein

the designated waveband is determined on the basis of transition energy between a plurality of states constituted by a specific ground state in the local area which ground state is able to occur in association with a specific chemical shift value or the potential change and a plurality of excited states.

2. A controlling method of life activity, comprising:

illuminating the life object with an electromagnetic wave of which a wavelength is included in a designated waveband or the wavelength relates to a designated peak; and

controlling the activity at least in a local area in the life object.

3. A transmission method of information related to life activity, comprising:

illuminating the life object with an electromagnetic wave of which a wavelength is included in a designated waveband or the wavelength relates to a designated peak; and

transmitting information obtained on the basis of detection of the activity at least in a local area in the life object.