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Testing and/or setting device for a photodynamic diagnosis or therapy system, or for training on such a system

US6361490B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

Klaus Irion · Liptingen, DE
Andre Ehrhardt · Tuttlingen, DE
Clemens Rebholz · Überlingen, DE
Karl-Heinz Strobl · Fiskdale, US

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 17, 1999
Grant date	Mar 26, 2002
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 17, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61N2005/0652
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A device for testing and/or adjusting a PDD or PDT system and/or for training on such a system comprises an illumination system emitting light which serves at least to stimulate a fluorescent dye and which may be directed to this end onto a tissue zone to be diagnosed and/or therapeutically treated, and an imaging unit which images the light arriving from the stimulated tissue zone. The invention is characterized by the provisions that a target is provided which reflects the light of the illumination system, and that the target comprises at least one light source which emits light within the wavelength range of the fluorescence spectrum of the dye.

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