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Optical computer tomographic apparatus and image reconstruction method using optical computer tomography

  • US 5,835,617 A
  • Filed: 01/17/1997
  • Issued: 11/10/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/18/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An optical computer tomographic apparatus comprising:

  • a light-projecting unit for individually exclusively projecting measurement light onto a plurality of different first portions of an object to be examined;

    a light-receiving unit for individually exclusively receiving the measurement light emitted from said light-projecting unit and transmitted through the object in a plurality of different second portions of the object; and

    an arithmetic control mechanism for controlling operations of said light-projecting unit and said light-receiving unit, thereby reconstructing a tomographic image of the object on the basis of a scattering absorption state of the measurement light entering the object,wherein said arithmetic control mechanism comprisesa first arithmetic unit for calculating light densities of the measurement light obtained in the plurality of second portions on the basis of a numerical analysis method which approximates a predetermined light diffusion equation, when it is assumed that the object is divided into a plurality of fine segments as an aggregate model and all the plurality of segments have the same value as an absorption coefficient under conditions equivalent to the conditions by which the object is measured by using said light-projecting unit and said light-receiving unit,a second arithmetic unit for calculating light densities of the measurement light obtained in the plurality of second portions on the basis of the numerical analysis method, when it is assumed that only one segment sequentially selected from the plurality of segments has a specific value as an absorption coefficient under the conditions equivalent to the conditions by which the object is measured by using said light-projecting unit and said light-receiving unit,a third arithmetic unit for calculating, as influences of the plurality of segments, ratios of the light densities of the plurality of second portions calculated by said first arithmetic unit to the light densities of the plurality of second portions calculated by said second arithmetic unit, thereby obtaining an influence matrix corresponding to an arrangement of the plurality of segments,a fourth arithmetic unit for calculating relative ratios of the light densities of the measurement light obtained in the plurality of second portions on the basis of the actual measurements done by using said light-projecting unit and said light-receiving unit to the light densities in the plurality of second portions calculated by said first arithmetic unit, thereby obtaining a relative ratio matrix corresponding to arrangements of the pluralities of first and second portions, anda fifth arithmetic unit for performing a matrix calculation by using the influence matrix obtained by said third arithmetic unit and the relative ratio matrix obtained by said fourth arithmetic unit, thereby obtaining feature data of the plurality of segments.

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