Medical apparatus for control of excitation light based on image sensor position and fluorescent drug information

• US 8,825,143 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2012
• Issued: 09/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Kubo, Kei, Kugimiya, Hideyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Jung, Unsu
• Assistant Examiner(s): LAURITZEN, AMANDA L
• Application Number:
  US13/617,718
• Publication Number:
  US 20130012815A1
• Time in Patent Office: 718 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 600/477
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00147 Holding or positioning arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/041 Capsule endoscopes for imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/043 for fluorescence imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/045 Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0646 with illumination filters
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0684 using light emitting diodes [LED]
• 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 5/0071 by measuring fluorescence emission
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0084 for introduction into the body, e.g. by catheters A61B5/1459 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0086 using infrared radiation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/073 Intestinal transmitters

Abstract

A medical apparatus includes a storing section in which information concerning a drug movement in a living body is stored for each of types of a plurality of fluorescent drugs, an arithmetic processing section that acquires, based on the information stored in the storing section, information concerning a target region to which a fluorescent drug is administered, information concerning a method of administering the fluorescent drug to the target region, and information indicating start of administration of the fluorescent drug, information concerning diagnosis start timing, an image pickup section, a position information acquiring section that acquires position information of the image pickup section, and a light source control section that stops, at least from the administration start timing to the diagnosis start timing, irradiation of excitation light and irradiates the excitation light based on the diagnosis start timing and the position information.

Claims

1. A medical apparatus comprising:

a memory in which information concerning a drug movement in a living body is stored in advance for each of types of a plurality of fluorescent drugs;

an arithmetic processing section comprising at least a first hardware processor that is configured to acquire, based on the information stored in the memory, fluorescent drug information including;

information concerning a target region of a subject to which a desired fluorescent drug is administered,

information concerning a method of administering the desired fluorescent drug to the target region,

information concerning start time of administration of the desired fluorescent drug, and

information concerning diagnosis start time corresponding to the desired fluorescent drug;

an image sensor that is configured to pick up an image of an object in the subject; and

a position information acquiring section comprising at least a second hardware processor that is configured to acquire position information of the image sensor in the subject;

wherein the arithmetic processing section is further configured to perform, based on the fluorescent drug information, determination concerning whether a current time reaches the diagnosis start time and to perform, based on the position information acquired by the position information acquiring section, determination concerning whether the image sensor reaches a periphery of the target region; and

a light source control section comprising at least the first hardware processor that performs control to stop irradiation of excitation light for exciting the desired fluorescent drug, at least from the start time of the administration of the desired fluorescent drug to the diagnosis start time, and to start the irradiation of the excitation light when it is determined that the current time is at or after the diagnosis start time and the image sensor reaches the periphery of the target region.

2. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when it is determined based on the determination result of the arithmetic processing section that the image pickup section passes the periphery of the target region, the light source control section performs control to cause a light source, which is configured to emit the excitation light and the white color light simultaneously or individually, to irradiate only the white color light.

3. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the image sensor does not reach a periphery of the target region, the image sensor is guided to the target region based on operation from an outside of the medical apparatus.