Portable raman diagnostic system
First Claim
1. A method for measuring glucose concentration in a patient comprising:
- illuminating a region of tissue with light including a plurality of sequential illumination wavelengths;
detecting Raman shifted light from the tissue with a detector in response to the plurality of sequential illumination wavelengths of light;
determining, with a data processor, a subset of the sequential illumination wavelengths using error minimization to define a plurality of separated spectral illumination bands, each spectral illumination band including a plurality of different illumination wavelengths, the determining step including processing the detected Raman shifted light to determine the illumination wavelengths of the plurality of separated spectral illumination bands;
subsequently, illuminating a region of tissue in the patient, the region of tissue having a glucose concentration to be measured, with illuminating light having the plurality of different illumination wavelengths within each of the plurality of separated spectral illumination bands;
detecting light from the tissue with the detector in response to the plurality of separated spectral illumination bands of light, the detector generating Raman spectral data; and
analyzing the Raman spectral data with the data processor to determine a concentration of glucose in the region of tissue in the patient.
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Abstract
The present invention further relates to the selection of the specific filter combinations, which can provide sufficient information for multivariate calibration to extract accurate analyte concentrations in complex biological systems. The present invention also describes wavelength interval selection methods that give rise to the miniaturized designs. Finally, this invention presents a plurality of wavelength selection methods and miniaturized spectroscopic apparatus designs and the necessary tools to map from one domain (wavelength selection) to the other (design parameters). Such selection of informative spectral bands has a broad scope in miniaturizing any clinical diagnostic instruments which employ Raman spectroscopy in particular and other spectroscopic techniques in general.
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43 Claims
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1. A method for measuring glucose concentration in a patient comprising:
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illuminating a region of tissue with light including a plurality of sequential illumination wavelengths; detecting Raman shifted light from the tissue with a detector in response to the plurality of sequential illumination wavelengths of light; determining, with a data processor, a subset of the sequential illumination wavelengths using error minimization to define a plurality of separated spectral illumination bands, each spectral illumination band including a plurality of different illumination wavelengths, the determining step including processing the detected Raman shifted light to determine the illumination wavelengths of the plurality of separated spectral illumination bands; subsequently, illuminating a region of tissue in the patient, the region of tissue having a glucose concentration to be measured, with illuminating light having the plurality of different illumination wavelengths within each of the plurality of separated spectral illumination bands; detecting light from the tissue with the detector in response to the plurality of separated spectral illumination bands of light, the detector generating Raman spectral data; and analyzing the Raman spectral data with the data processor to determine a concentration of glucose in the region of tissue in the patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A portable device for measuring glucose within a body comprising:
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a handheld glucose measurement device including; a light source system in the device that illuminates a region of tissue with a plurality of separated wavelength bands with at least 300 spectral points of illumination; an optical system in the device that delivers and collects light from the region of tissue in response to the illuminating light; a detector in the device that detects a plurality of separated spectral regions of Raman shifted a light collected by the optical system in response to each of the at least 300 spectral points of illumination, the detector generating Raman spectral data; a data processor in the device, the data processor being connected to the detector, the data processor being configured to process the Raman spectral data using a calculated error value to select a subset of the at least 300 spectral points of illumination and process the Raman spectral data associated with the selected subset of spectral points to determine a glucose level within the region of tissue. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A handheld Raman diagnostic device comprising:
a handheld unit having a laser light source system, a data processor and a detector system, the laser light source system configured to emit light at a plurality of different illumination wavelengths wherein the detector system detects Raman scattered light from a region of interest in a portion of tissue of a patient and wherein the device operates the laser light source to emit a plurality of illumination spectral bands, each spectral band having a plurality of separated illumination wavelengths that are optically coupled to the region of interest, the detector system configured to detect Raman light from the region of interest and to generate Raman spectral data at a plurality of Raman shifted wavelengths in response to each of the plurality of separated Illumination wavelengths in the plurality of illumination spectral bands wherein the data processor is configured to select, using error minimization, the plurality of illumination spectral bands from the plurality of different illumination wavelengths and to process the Raman spectral data to determine a glucose level in the region of interest. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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