Electrothermographic apparatus for detection and pinpointing of malignancies in human bodies
First Claim
1. An electrothermographic apparatus for detecting and pinpointing abnormalities in humans, especially cancerous growths in the mamma, comprising:
- (a) detector means including a row of pyroelectric detector elements, said detector means further including a self-scanning circuit and a shift register arrangement;
(b) transmitting means for line-by-line transmission of a thermal image of a region under examination to said row of detector elements, said detector means being operative to cause the generation of signals which correspond to different points of the thermal image and have intensities denoting the temperatures of the respective points;
(c) storing means for storing the signals from said detector means;
(d) evaluating means for evaluation of the stored signals according to intensity; and
(e) displaying means for displaying the evaluated signals in different colors each of which is indicative of a given range of intensities.
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Abstract
Apparatus for supplying signals to a vidicon which furnishes a color image of a selected portion of the human body, especially of the mamma, has an optical scanning system which transmits a thermal image of the selected portion of the body to a pyroelectric infrared detector without touching the selected portion. The detector transmits signals denoting the temperature of different spots of the selected portion of the body to a storage whose output transmits signals to the vidicon, always via one of a series of threshold circuits which are calibrated to transmit signals to associated color matrices only when the intensity of such signals is within a range denoting the particular color. The matrices transmit signals to the vidicon so that the latter furnishes a color image of the selected portion of the body.
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18 Claims
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1. An electrothermographic apparatus for detecting and pinpointing abnormalities in humans, especially cancerous growths in the mamma, comprising:
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(a) detector means including a row of pyroelectric detector elements, said detector means further including a self-scanning circuit and a shift register arrangement; (b) transmitting means for line-by-line transmission of a thermal image of a region under examination to said row of detector elements, said detector means being operative to cause the generation of signals which correspond to different points of the thermal image and have intensities denoting the temperatures of the respective points; (c) storing means for storing the signals from said detector means; (d) evaluating means for evaluation of the stored signals according to intensity; and (e) displaying means for displaying the evaluated signals in different colors each of which is indicative of a given range of intensities. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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