Polarized in vivo imaging device, system and method
US7347817B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 5, 2005 |
| Grant date | Mar 25, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 21, 2026 |
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- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61B1/0684
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An autonomous in vivo sensing device may include a polarizing filter to polarize light emitted by an illumination unit, and to block light specularly reflected from a turbid media from reaching an imager of such device. An autonomous in vivo sensing device with monochromatic illumination units to alternatingly illuminate a target area with light of different wavelengths, and to subtract an image illuminated by light in a first wavelength from an image illuminated by light in a second wavelength, to produce an image of a sub-surface layer of such target area.
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