Medical wireless imaging device

• US 20060183976A1
• Filed: 12/09/2005
• Published: 08/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gyrus ACMI, Inc. (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: C2C CURE Incorporated, Given Imaging Limited (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: Adler, Doron, Zaretski, Alex, Pillar, Ofer, Blumenzweig, Arie
• Granted Patent: US 7,559,892 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/176
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00096 Optical elements
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00193 adapted for stereoscopic vision
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00194 adapted for three-dimensional imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0623 for off-axis illumination
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0638 providing two or more wavelengths
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0655 Control therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0084 for introduction into the body, e.g. by catheters A61B5/1459 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0275 using tracers, e.g. dye dilution
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/481 involving the use of contrast agents
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/504 for diagnosis of blood vessels, e.g. by angiography
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2209/047 using multispectral pick-up elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/555 for picking-up images in sites, inaccessible due to their dimensions or hazardous conditions, e.g. endoscopes or borescopes

Abstract

An endoscope having restricted dimensions and comprising at least one image gatherer, at least one image distorter and at least one image sensor shaped to fit within said limited dimensions, and wherein said image distorter is operable to distort an image received from said image gatherer so that the image is sensible at said shaped image sensor.

Claims

1-97. -97. (canceled)

98. A medical wireless imaging device comprising:

an image sensor; and

a plurality of light sources, each light source configured to be individually controlled.

99. The device according to claim 98, wherein said plurality of light sources are each individually controlled by a control unit.

100. The device according to claim 98 wherein an intensity of each light source is individually controlled

101. The device according to claim 98, wherein a light pulse width of each light source is individually controlled.

102. The device according to claim 100, wherein the intensity of each light source is determined based on an image analyzing process for each individual light source.

103. The device according to claim 98, wherein said light sources include LEDs.

104. The device according to claim 98, comprising a transmitter.

105. The device according to claim 98, comprising a battery pack.

106. The device according to claim 98, comprising a wireless link.

107. The device according to claim 98 comprising an optical system.

108. The device according to claim 98 configured for small-dimension access medical diagnosis.

109. A system for medical imaging, the system comprising:

a wireless imaging device, said imaging device comprising a plurality of light sources;

a control unit for controlling individual light sources; and

a processing device.

110. The system according to claim 109 wherein the control unit controls the intensity of individual light sources.

111. The system according to claim 109 wherein the control unit controls the light pulse width of individual light sources.

112. The system to claim 109 wherein said processing device generates control data to control individual light sources.

113. The system according to claim 109, comprising a monitor.

114. The method for medical imaging, the method comprising:

imaging interior spaces of a body;

operating individual light sources during an imaging period;

calculating an intensity of each individual light source;

controlling the intensity of each individual light source; and

wirelessly transmitting data of an object being viewed.

115. The method according to claim 114 comprising displaying transmitted data.

116. A method for medical imaging, the method comprising:

imaging interior spaces of a body;

operating individual light sources during an imaging period;

controlling a light pulse width of each individual light source; and

wirelessly transmitting data of an object being viewed.