System for optically sectioning and mapping surgically excised tissue
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1. A system for optically sectioning and mapping a surgically excised tissue specimen comprising:
- means for providing data representing a mosaic of optically formed sectional image elements of the specimen, wherein each of said sectional image elements has a field of view representing a plurality of pixels; and
means for viewing on a display at a first resolution a macroscopic composite image of the specimen in accordance with said data representing said mosaic of optically formed sectional image elements; and
means for selecting at least one location on the macroscopic composite image for enabling viewing by said viewing means of the sectional image elements associated with said location on said display at a second resolution higher than said first resolution, in which said macroscopic composite image exceeds the field of view of each of said sectional elements.
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Abstract
A display (34) provides from digital images of an excised tissue specimen the orientation and location of tissue and regions of interest (cancers). Images of slices through excised specimen are obtained using a confocal microscope (10) to obtain confocal maps to provide a mosaic of images each of which corresponds to a different map element. A macroscopic image of significant map elements and high resolution images of selected elements are provided to locate and mark regions which are cancerous thereby assisting the surgeon to excise such regions.
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32 Claims
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1. A system for optically sectioning and mapping a surgically excised tissue specimen comprising:
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means for providing data representing a mosaic of optically formed sectional image elements of the specimen, wherein each of said sectional image elements has a field of view representing a plurality of pixels; and means for viewing on a display at a first resolution a macroscopic composite image of the specimen in accordance with said data representing said mosaic of optically formed sectional image elements; and means for selecting at least one location on the macroscopic composite image for enabling viewing by said viewing means of the sectional image elements associated with said location on said display at a second resolution higher than said first resolution, in which said macroscopic composite image exceeds the field of view of each of said sectional elements. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 28, 30, 31, 32)
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9. A method of optically sectioning and mapping tissue for histopathology comprising the steps of:
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capturing an anatomic map of optically formed sectional image elements constituting a full field representation of a region of said tissue which constitutes a specimen, in which each of said sectional image elements has a field of view of said tissue; storing data representing a plurality of pixels constituting each of said map elements and orientation of said specimen with respect to a patient; displaying in response to said data a composite macroscopic image of said full field containing all of said pixels at a first resolution, in which said composite macroscopic image of said full field exceeds the field of view of each of said sectional image elements; and displaying microscopic images of selected blocks of said elements of sufficient higher resolution than said first resolution to show portions of said specimen containing cells of interest. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 22, 23, 29)
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12. A system for optically sectioning and mapping tissue excised from a patient comprising:
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means for capturing microscopic images of optically formed sections of the tissue; means for presenting different parts of said tissue to said capturing means while maintaining the orientation of said tissue with respect to the patient from which said tissue was excised, operating said capturing means to capture at least one microscopic image of section of said tissue at each of said different parts of said tissue, and storing each of said captured microscopic images; means for providing a macroscopic composite image of said specimen in accordance with a plurality of different ones of said stored microscopic images the specimen; and means for displaying said composite image at a resolution to enable selection of one or more locations in said composite image and displaying at least one of said stored microscopic image associated with each said selected location at a higher resolution than the resolution of said displayed composite image, in which said macroscopic image exceeds the field of view of any one of said microscopic images. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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24. A system for mapping tissue comprising:
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an imager for capturing first data representing a mosaic of optically formed sectional microscopic images of the tissue; and a computer system receiving said first data from said imager, and said computer system having memory storing at least second data representing a macroscopic image of said tissue in accordance with said first data, in which said macroscopic image has a field of view of said tissue greater in size than any one of said microscopic images, and said macroscopic image is displayable at a different resolution than said microscopic images. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27)
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