Biological measurement apparatus, biological observation apparatus and operation method for biological measurement apparatus

• US 8,491,469 B2
• Filed: 02/04/2011
• Issued: 07/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Gono, Kazuhiro, Igarashi, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Leubecker, John P
• Assistant Examiner(s): COLQUE, RONALD DAVID
• Application Number:
  US13/021,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20110275898A1
• Time in Patent Office: 900 Days
• Field of Search: 600/160, 600/156, 600/158, 600/310, 600/407, 600/411, 600/476, 600/427, 700/228, 700/240, 348/61, 340/618, 340/619, 141/11, 141/1, 359/665, 606/3, 607/104
• US Class Current: 600/160
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00042 for mechanical operation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/015 Control of fluid supply or evacuation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0669 at proximal end of an endoscope
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/126 provided with means for cleaning in-use

Abstract

A biological measurement apparatus includes: an endoscope including a treatment instrument insertion channel provided inside an insertion portion; a pump that delivers water into the treatment instrument insertion channel; an optical system, etc., that guide light from a light source that emits light in a predetermined wavelength band into the water delivered into the treatment instrument insertion channel; and a spectroscope that detects return light resulting from the light passing through the water, falling on and being reflected by an object and returning while passing through the water when the water is delivered from the pump.

Claims

1. A biological measurement apparatus for performing spectral measurement on a biological body, the biological measurement apparatus comprising:

a tube portion having a distal-end opening portion and a proximal-end opening portion;

a liquid delivery apparatus that is connected with the proximal-end opening portion of the tube portion such that light from a light source that emits light in a predetermined wavelength band enters the proximal-end opening portion, and delivers a liquid from the proximal-end opening portion into the tube portion;

light separating means that is provided between the proximal-end opening portion and the light source, for separating light entering the proximal-end opening portion and return light which is returned through the liquid after reflection by the biological body as an object and emitted from the proximal-end opening portion, the return light resulting from reflection of the light which enters the proximal-end opening portion and is emitted from the distal-end opening portion after passing through the tube portion,

a control section that performs a spectral measurement on the biological body based on an output of a photodetection section that detects the return light which is separated by the light separating means.

2. The biological measurement apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tube portion is a treatment instrument insertion channel.

3. The biological measurement apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the photodetection section is a spectroscope.

4. The biological measurement apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the liquid delivery apparatus includes a pump that delivers the liquid at a predetermined pressure.

5. The biological measurement apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the light separating means is a beam splitter;

and

wherein the photodetector detects the return light resulting from the separation in the beam splitter.

6. The biological measurement apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the light separating means is an integrating sphere;

and

wherein the photodetector detects the return light resulting from the separation in the integrating sphere.

7. The biological measurement apparatus according to claim 1, comprising:

an endoscope including the tube portion;

a main body apparatus; and

a connection tube connecting the tube portion and the main body apparatus,

wherein the main body apparatus includes the liquid delivery apparatus that delivers a liquid into the tube portion via the connection tube.

8. The biological measurement apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tube portion is provided inside or on an outside of an insertion portion of the endoscope.