190 results about "Near infrared imaging" patented technology

An imaging system for acquisition of NIR and full-color images includes a light source providing visible light and NIR light to an area under observation, such as living tissue, a camera having one or more image sensors configured to separately detect blue reflectance light, green reflectance light, and combined red reflectance light / detected NIR light returned from the area under observation. A controller in signal communication with the light source and the camera is configured to control the light source to continuously illuminate area under observation with temporally continuous blue / green illumination light and with red illumination light and NIR excitation light. At least one of the red illumination light and NIR excitation light are switched on and off periodically in synchronism with the acquisition of red and NIR light images in the camera.

Near infrared imaging using elastic light scattering and tissue autofluorescence are explored for medical applications. The approach involves imaging using cross-polarized elastic light scattering and tissue autofluorescence in the Near Infra-Red (NIR) coupled with image processing and inter-image operations to differentiate human tissue components.

A method of objectively quantifying assessments of joints having arthritis for purposes of assessment, diagnosis and treatment. The objective measurements utilize known imaging modalities including 3D scanning, thermal imaging, visible and near-infrared imaging and two-dimensional imaging to quantify swelling, heat distribution, erythema, and range or motion. The objective measurements can be combined in various ways to assess the extent of the disease and can be used to adjust treatment protocols.

A method and system for eye-safe near infra-red (NIR) optical imaging illumination. An eye of an intended subject are imaged with visible light or NIR light at an unconditionally eye-safe illumination level and the maximum permissible eye-safe NIR illumination that can be applied to the eye is determined from the captured images. The eye of the intended subject can then be illuminated with at least one substantially maximal NIR light pulse having a pulse intensity and duration selected to provide the substantially maximum permissible eye-safe NIR illumination intensity at the eye. NIR light pulse illumination can be inhibited in response to detection of other subjects either within the vicinity of a volume extending between an NIR illuminator illuminating the eye and the intended subject. The likelihood that an intended subject has been recently illuminated can also be determined and statistical measures can be used to avoid re-illuminating subject unnecessarily.

Compounds and methods related to NIR molecular imaging, in-vitro and in-vivo functional imaging, therapy / efficacy monitoring, and cancer and metastatic activity imaging. Compounds and methods demonstrated pertain to the field of peripheral benzodiazepine receptor imaging, metabolic imaging, cellular respiration imaging, cellular proliferation imaging as targeted agents that incorporate signaling agents.

This invention relates to an in-vivo diagnostic method based on near infrared radiation (NIR radiation) that uses water-soluble dyes and their biomolecule adducts, each having specific photophysical and pharmaco-chemical properties, as a contrast medium for fluorescence and transillumination diagnostics in the NIR range, to new dyes and pharmaceuticals containing such dyes.

An endoscope or wand device comprising transmitting members, in which the transmitting members comprise a coating that transmits between about 95% and about 99.5% of energy at a wavelength within the infra red spectrum.

An imaging system for acquisition of NIR and full-color images includes a light source providing visible light and NIR light to an area under observation, such as living tissue, a camera having one or more image sensors configured to separately detect blue reflectance light, green reflectance light, and combined red reflectance light / detected NIR light returned from the area under observation. A controller in signal communication with the light source and the camera is configured to control the light source to continuously illuminate area under observation with temporally continuous blue / green illumination light and with red illumination light and NIR excitation light. At least one of the red illumination light and NIR excitation light are switched on and off periodically in synchronism with the acquisition of red and NIR light images in the camera.

The invention provides a near-infrared imaging device and an identification method based on the palm vein and the palm print. Firstly, a palm image is obtained through a near-infrared imaging device, the central subblock sample needed to be processed is extracted, the subblock is inputted into two feature extraction modules: a genus palm print information code extraction and a vein structure extraction, then the two features are respectively matched, each own similarity of the two features is respectively calculated through using different similarity evaluation methods, the optimized weighted array of the genus palm print and the vein vessel structure is obtained according to a training sample, then the two similarities perform the similarity level fusion, then the similarity level after the fusing performs decision-making and comparing according to a scheduled threshold value, and then the final determination is obtained in reference to the fusioned matching. The near-infrared imaging device and the identification method based on the palm vein and the palm print can overcome the disadvantages of less image features and single processing, and has the advantages of improving the identification rate and the stability of the system.

Methods and systems for controlling a prosthesis using a brain imager that images a localized portion of the brain are provided according to one embodiment of the invention. For example, the brain imager can provide motor cortex activation data using near infrared imaging techniques and EEG techniques among others. EEG and near infrared signals can be correlated with brain activity related to limbic control and may be provided to a neural network, for example, a fuzzy neural network that maps brain activity data to limbic control data. The limbic control data may then be used to control a prosthetic limb. Other embodiments of the invention include fiber optics that provide light to and receive light from the surface of the scalp through hair.

Endoscopes and wands, useful for near infrared imaging, particularly for medical purposes, have transmitting members that transmit between about 95% and 99.9% of the energy at a wavelength within the infrared spectrum. The wands and endoscopes have at least one channel for transmitting and receiving light in the visible spectrum and at least one channel for transmitting and receiving light in the infrared spectrum.

Compounds and methods related to NIR molecular imaging, in-vitro and in-vivo functional imaging, therapy / efficacy monitoring, and cancer and metastatic activity imaging. Compounds and methods demonstrated pertain to the field of peripheral benzodiazepine receptor imaging, metabolic imaging, cellular respiration imaging, cellular proliferation imaging as targeted agents that incorporate signaling agents.

An optical system, in particular for endoscopic applications, is disclosed which uses wavelength-compensating optical components, in particular prisms, made of materials with different inter-element coatings and refractive indices to image significantly different wavelength-ranges (VIS and NIR) onto the same image plane of an image acquisition device, such as a CCD sensor.

Near infrared imaging using elastic light scattering and tissue autofluorescence and utilizing interior examination techniques and equipment are explored for medical applications. The approach involves imaging using cross-polarized elastic light scattering and / or tissue autofluorescence in the Near Infra-Red (NIR) coupled with image processing and inter-image operations to differentiate human tissue components.

The invention discloses an imaging device based on vein pattern and backside pattern of a finger and a multimode identity authentication method, wherein the imaging device comprises an acquisition support on which a concave finger putting area is arranged; a visible light imaging device which is arranged at one side of the concave finger putting area of the acquisition support and used for acquiring the back picture of the finger; a near infrared imaging device which is arranged at the other side of the concave finger putting area of the acquisition support and opposite to the visible light imaging device, and used for acquiring the vein picture of the finger by the irradiation of a near infrared light supply; and the bar-shaped near infrared light supply which is arranged on the acquisition support and used for irradiating near infrared light to the finger from the side of the finger. The identity authentication method comprises a logon procedure and an authentication procedure, and the adopted biological features thereof comprise the backside pattern and vein pattern of the same finger. The invention also relates to identity authentication equipment comprising the imaging device, which has better anti-counterfeit performance, and can effectively improve the stability and applicability of a biometrics identification system.

The invention discloses a non-contact river surface flow field imaging measuring method and belongs to the technical field of open channel flow measurement. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, mounting a near-infrared light filter in front of an image sensor to realize near-infrared imaging, and enhancing the brightness contrast between a flow tracer and the water surface background; secondly, carrying out airspace high-pass filtering on an image, and restraining optical noises of the water surface; thirdly, carrying out motion vector estimation by a fast Fourier cross-correlation algorithm to obtain displacement vectors of each analyzed area; fourthly, reestablishing a time average flow field by a method based on space-time federal filtering; and fifthly, carrying out normal incidence correction on flow rate vectors by a direct linear transformation method to realize the calibration and the visualization of the flow field. The non-contact river surface flow field imaging measuring method can be stably and reliably applied to river surface flow field measuring under complex water surface optical environments.

Near infrared imaging using elastic light scattering and tissue autofluorescence and utilizing interior examination techniques and equipment are explored for medical applications. The approach involves imaging using cross-polarized elastic light scattering and / or tissue autofluorescence in the Near Infra-Red (NIR) coupled with image processing and inter-image operations to differentiate human tissue components.

This invention provides an NIR imaging lens assembly comprising a lens element with refractive power made of a visible-light-absorbable material, and a filter or a filter film formed on one lens element with refractive power for filtering out infrared light, wherein the number of lens elements with refractive power in the NIR imaging lens assembly is N, and wherein N≧2. The above lens arrangement allows light in a specific NIR wavelength range to pass through the lens assembly, thereby reducing interferences or influences from light in the other wavelength ranges. As a result, the resolution of the imaging lens assembly is improved, and its total track length is reduced effectively so that the entire lens system can be compact.

A method and system for eye-safe near infra-red (NIR) optical imaging illumination. An eye of an intended subject are imaged with visible light or NIR light at an unconditionally eye-safe illumination level and the maximum permissible eye-safe NIR illumination that can be applied to the eye is determined from the captured images. The eye of the intended subject can then be illuminated with at least one substantially maximal NIR light pulse having a pulse intensity and duration selected to provide the substantially maximum permissible eye-safe NIR illumination intensity at the eye. NIR light pulse illumination can be inhibited in response to detection of other subjects either within the vicinity of a volume extending between an NIR illuminator illuminating the eye and the intended subject. The likelihood that an intended subject has been recently illuminated can also be determined and statistical measures can be used to avoid re-illuminating subject unnecessarily.

A near-infrared imaging sensor according to the present invention includes a photodiode array sensitive to light with a wavelength of 1.2 to 3 μm and a multiplexer including a signal readout circuit. The near-infrared imaging sensor is contained in a housing and is vacuum-sealed. The housing includes a main body section and a lid covering the main body section. The lid is made of a material transparent to light with a wavelength of 1.2 to 3 μm.

The invention relates to an automatic puncture robot comprising a processor, a binocular near infrared imaging device and a multi-axis puncture mechanism. The binocular near infrared imaging device and the multi-axis puncture mechanism are electrically connected to the processor; the processor receives and processes blood vessel scanning information of the binocular near infrared imaging device, forms instruction information and sends the instruction information to the multi-axis puncture mechanism, so that the multi-axis puncture mechanism carries a puncture needle to get close to the blood vessel and completes the puncture process. The automatic puncture robot can accurately guide the puncture needle to complete the whole puncture process, and safety and reliability in puncture are guaranteed.

A chemical imaging system is provided which uses a near infrared radiation microscope. The system includes an illumination source which illuminates an area of a sample using light in the near infrared radiation wavelength and light in the visible wavelength. A multitude of spatially resolved spectra of transmitted, reflected, emitted or scattered near infrared wavelength radiation light from the illuminated area of the sample is collected and a collimated beam is produced therefrom. A near infrared imaging spectrometer is provided for selecting a near infrared radiation image of the collimated beam. The filtered images are collected by a detector for further processing. The visible wavelength light from the illuminated area of the sample is simultaneously detected providing for the simultaneous visible and near infrared chemical imaging analysis of the sample. Two efficient means for performing three dimensional near infrared chemical imaging microscopy are provided.

The invention discloses a near-infrared imaging ultrasonic vascular therapeutic apparatus. A near-infrared surface vessel detection subsystem is used for detecting the surface vessels, and is connected with a near-infrared vessel detection operating interface; the near-infrared vessel detection operating interface is used for controlling focus, thereby achieving the inspection of vessels; according to the set, the surface veins or arteries are likely to be displaced below a projecting device; a color Doppler flowing imaging subsystem is used for detecting the flowing information and is connected with a diagnosis probe; an ultrasonic treatment subsystem is used for treating shallow-layer vascular diseases and is connected with a treatment probe; a keyboard is used for inputting information of patients, achieving switch and control of the color Doppler flowing imaging and the ultrasonic treatment, and respectively displaying on a display; and the display is used for displaying the information of the patients, the color Doppler flowing information and a thrombectomy situation. With the adoption of the near-infrared imaging ultrasonic vascular therapeutic apparatus, the surface veins or arteries distribution can be displayed in real time, the flowing parameters are obtained fast, the focus of infection is located exactly, the ultrasonic density is selected to perform an targeted treatment according to the flowing situation, thereby achieving the best treatment effect.

The invention discloses an electrowetting zoom lens based on ion liquid, comprising a cylindrical shell, a metal electrode, a transparent electrode, an insulating membrane, a hydrophobic membrane, a glass top cover, a glass bottom cover, conducting liquid and filling liquid, wherein the conducting liquid can be one or two or combination of a plurality of ion liquids. Beside having the advantages of general zoom liquid lenses, the electrowetting zoom lens based on ion liquid further has the advantages of lower voltage required for implementing focusing, capability of regulating focal length change range through changing the type of the ion liquid, capability of adapting to drastic change of external temperature, and extreme conditions, such as low temperature, high temperature and the like, capability of being applied to near-infrared imaging and the like.

The invention discloses an online monitoring method for the flue gas temperature of a hearth outlet of a power boiler, comprising the steps of: placing a plurality of targets at a vertical section near a smokestack of a boiler for sensing the temperature; installing a near infrared imaging device on the side wall of a horizontal flue of the boiler for collecting the radiation energy of the targets; carrying out communication by the near infrared imaging device with a computer through a serial port and RS232, sending the collected radiation energy of the targets to the computer, calculating by the computer to obtain temperature data of the targets; and then sending the temperature data of the targets to a host computer for processing, and converting the temperature to the flue gas temperature of the position of the targets. The invention has the advantages that the average temperature at the section of the hearth outlet, the average temperature of the upper / lower and left / right side, and the highest / the lowest temperature can be continuously monitored, the distribution curve of the temperature of the section can be drawn, and a plurality of alarm functions are set; and the invention is beneficial to the safe and economic operation of a boil with a large capacity and high parameters.

A thermal lithographic printing plate overcoat composition comprising (a) a water-soluble polymeric dye having an absorption band between about 300 and about 600 nm; and (b) micro-particles or nano-particles is provided. A negative-working thermal lithographic printing plate comprising (a) a hydrophilic substrate; (b) a near infrared imaging layer disposed on the hydrophilic substrate; and (c) an overcoat layer disposed on the imaging layer, said overcoat layer comprising a water-soluble polymeric dye having an absorption band between about 300 and about 600 nm; and micro-particles or nano-particles is also provided. Finally, a water-soluble polymeric dye having an absorption band between about 300 and about 600 nm is provided.

The invention relates to a binocular near-infrared imaging system and a blood vessel recognition method. The binocular near-infrared imaging system includes: a binocular camera shooting mechanism (11), an infrared light source (13), and a processing unit (15); and the processing unit (15) is electrically connected to the binocular camera shooting mechanism (11) and the infrared light source (13) so as to use infrared images acquired by the binocular camera shooting mechanism (11) to perform three-dimensional image recognition processing on blood vessels. According to the mechanism that the near-infrared light of hemoglobin in the blood vessels is different from that of other tissues and the principle of parallax of binocular images of a binocular visual imaging mechanism, the binocular visual imaging mechanism and the infrared light source can perform image acquisition and processing on skin tissues so as to achieve spatial three-dimensional recognition of the blood vessels.

The invention provides a near infrared fluorescent dye with a tumor specificity targeting performance and applications thereof. The near infrared fluorescent dye is NIR dye PC-002, and can be automatically absorbed and accumulated by canine tumor cells; and the dye can be specifically accumulated in the tumor parts, and will not absorbed by the normal cells, so the dye can be used for tumor specificity target molecule imaging. The NIR specific combining between the near infrared fluorescent dye and the tumor cell is achieved by activating a HIF1[alpha] / OATPs signal molecule and oxygen deficiency. Heterogeneity of tumor cells is overcome, specific target molecule conjugate with common characters can be designed according to the characteristics of oxygen deficiency and OATP high expression of tumor cells, and through the observation on specific combining between the NIR dye and other tumor cells, the near infrared imaging technology can be applied to early warning and rapid diagnosis of more tumors.