Method for examining tissue samples and device therefor

US7758601B2 · kind B2 · utility

Inventors

• Sylvia Heywang-Koebrunner · Bad Kötzting, DE
• Walter Heywang · Grasbrunn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 16, 2008
• Grant date: Jul 20, 2010
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2090/3954
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

For examining tissue samples that were taken from a tissue area with suspicion of tumor it is proposed that the tissue samples be examined shortly afterward for a measurement value typical of tissue alteration. With tissue samples taken spatially-systematically, a measurement value distribution at the sampling site can be ascertained, and an image of the tissue alteration before sampling can be represented. The device for performing the method includes a sampling device (PU), a supply device (TU), a detector (Det), an evaluation unit (CPU), a storage unit (SU) and an output device (AV) that allows an online examination of taken tissue samples (Pr), and with which the three-dimensional image can be represented by, for instance, a distribution at the sampling site of fluorescence achieved by means of systemically applied markers.