Noninvasive blood analyzer
US6061583A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 11, 1998 |
| Grant date | May 9, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 11, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01N21/4795
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A noninvasive blood analyzer is provided which comprises: a light source for illuminating a part of tissues of a living body including a blood vessel; an image pickup section for picking up an image of the illuminated blood vessel and tissues; and an analyzing section for analyzing the picked image; the analyzing section including an extracting section for extracting image density distribution across the blood vessel in the image as an image density profile, a quantifying section for quantifying configurational characteristics of the image density profile, a computing section for computing the concentration of a blood constituent on the basis of the quantified characteristics, and an outputting section for outputting a computation result. The blood analyzer can measure the concentration of blood hemoglobin and the hematocrit in real time with an improved repeatability without blood sampling.
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