Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag

Dr&#xc4;ger Medical Gmbh

Drägerwerk Ag & Co. Kgaa

Dr&#xe4;ger Medical Ag & Co. Kgaa

Optiscan Pty Ltd.

Drager Medical Ag & Co. Kgaa

Technische Universitaet Dresden Institut Fuer Biomedizinische Technik

Technische Universitaet Dresden Klinik Und Poliklinik Fuer Neurochirurgie

Gerald Panitz

Christoph Hauger

Stefan Saur

Roland Guckler

Claus Bunke

Marco Wilzbach

Jürgen Manigel

Jens Köhne

Joachim Steffen

Konstantinos Filippatos

Guido Wagener

Patrick Hoyer

Henryk Schnaars

Sven Pasdzior

Robert Alan Pattie

Peter Maxwell Delaney

Christopher Gerard Byrne

Hans-Ulrich Hansmann

Uwe Schmid

Ralf Dittmann

Hermann Hopermann

Martin Wunderlich

Thorsten Haase

Tobias Meyer

Martin Oelschlaegel

Ute Morgenstern

Stephan B Sobottka

Dieter Settgast

Volker Schierschke

Jürgen Kelch

Gabriele Schackert

Thomas Stepan

Axel Schmitt

Kay Frensch

Ralf Dittman

Bernd Kaufmann

Selene Rodd-Routley

The invention relates to a method for determining information for distinguishing between tissue fluid cells and tissue cells in a high-resolution image of a tissue area. In the method, images stored temporarily with a low resolution and a high image rate before the high-resolution image is recorded are accessed and the information for distinguishing between tissue fluid cells and tissue cells is obtained from the temporarily stored images with the low resolution and the high image rate.

Optical monitoring device and method and data processing system for determining information for distinguishing between cells

A scanning image generation apparatus is provided and includes an image information acquisition unit for scanning grid points of an object and for acquiring, on the basis of the scanned grid points, items of image information that represent an image. An evaluation unit has a software routine for evaluating at least some of the items of image information and for classifying the items of image information as usable or unusable on the basis of the evaluation. The apparatus also includes a release unit which enables an image recording if the evaluated items of image information are classified as usable by the evaluation unit. The scanning image generation apparatus moreover includes a memory with at least one quality profile stored thereon. The quality profile contains a person-specific software routine for evaluating and classifying the items of image information. The software routine is loadable into the evaluation unit.

Scanning image generation apparatus and scanning image recording method

An apparatus for classifying a brain tissue area as functional or non-functional by a stimulation of the brain includes a receiver unit for receiving information about a performed stimulation, a recording device for recording images that represent the brain tissue area, a detection unit for detecting a change in perfusion in the brain tissue area, and a classification unit configured to determine with the information whether there is a correlation between the performed stimulation and the detected change in perfusion, and to classify the brain tissue area as functional or as non-functional. The recording device is an endomicroscope for recording endomicroscopic images of the brain tissue area with a spatial resolution better than 20 &#x3bc;m and a frame rate of at least 0.4 frames per second. The detection unit is configured to detect a change in perfusion based on the positions of certain tissue structures in the recorded images.

Apparatus and method for classifying a brain tissue area, computer program, non-volatile computer readable storage medium and data processing apparatus

An apparatus is for localizing brain tissue regions connected with a brain function in a brain operating field. The apparatus includes a stimulation apparatus and a localization unit with a camera. The stimulation apparatus is configured to carry out a number of stimulation cycles. Each cycle includes a stimulation phase during which the brain function is stimulated and a rest phase during which there is no stimulation of the brain function. The localization unit records at least one stimulation image with the stimulated brain function and at least one reference image without the stimulated brain function during each stimulation cycle and uses the recorded stimulation and reference images to localize the brain tissue regions connected with the stimulated brain function. The stimulation apparatus is configured to output a feedback signal to the localization unit with at least the start of a stimulation cycle being evident from the feedback signal.

Method and apparatus for localizing brain tissue regions connected with a brain function

A method for creating a high-resolution image of an object from low-resolution images of the object is provided. Both the low-resolution images and the high-resolution image are composed of a pixel grid. An image recording device successively records low-resolution images, in which pitches of the grid points of the pixel grid are increased in one image dimension in comparison with the pitches of the grid points of the pixel grid in the high-resolution image to be created. A data processing system registers the low-resolution images with respect to one another to obtain registered images which are superimposed to obtain the high-resolution image. The grid points of the low-resolution images and the grid points of the high-resolution image have same dimensions and the data processing system uses image information obtained from different positions of the object relative to the grid points in the individual low-resolution images to create the high-resolution images.

Method for creating a high-resolution image, data processing system and optical observation apparatus

A sterile sheath and methods for enclosing a confocal endomicroscopy (CEM) scanner probe with the sterile sheath are provided. The scanner probe includes a probe shaft, a probe tip, a probe body, and a probe umbilical. The sterile sheath for enclosing the CEM scanner probe includes a sheath tube configured to receive the probe shaft and has a distal tube end, a proximal tube end, a sheath tip mounted at the distal tube end of the sheath tube, and a sheath socket configured to receive the probe body. The sheath socket has a distal socket end and a proximal socket end. The proximal tube end of the sheath tube is fixed to the sheath socket at the distal socket end. The sterile sheath further includes a sheath lock ring and a sheath drape mounted on the sheath socket at the proximal socket end with the sheath lock ring.

Sterile sheath for confocal endomicroscopy scanner probe

A computer-implemented method for locating possible artifacts in a virtually stained histology image, which was obtained from an initial histology image, is provided. In the method, at least one further image is generated on the basis of the virtually stained histology image or the initial histology image. The differences between the at least one further image and the virtually stained histology image are determined when the at least one further image has been generated on the basis of the initial histology image or the differences between the at least one further image and the initial histology image are determined when the at least one further image has been generated on the basis of the virtually stained histology image, and a mapping from the determined differences to their positions in the virtually stained histology image is created. The positions in the virtually stained histology image represent the positions of possible artifacts.

Computer-implemented method for locating possible artifacts in a virtually stained histology image

The invention is directed to a method for operating a visualization system which includes a surgical microscope assembly for viewing a surgical region under magnification. The surgical microscope assembly is provided with a computer unit having a display for displaying image data. A detection arrangement is configured to detect endoscopic images in the surgical region and is operatively coupled to the surgical microscope assembly. A circuit actuable by a viewing person is configured to detect actuation data. The circuit is configured to set an operating state of the surgical microscope assembly matched to the detection arrangement in response to a presence of the actuation data for the surgical microscope assembly.

Method for operating a visualization system for providing endoscopic images

A microscope system is made available, said microscope system including: a microscope with an observer beam path with at least one camera for obtaining at least one electronic image of an observation object with a deep channel with a base, a motor-driven mount and/or a motor-driven stand, on which the microscope is mounted, a detection unit for detecting the focal depth set at the microscope, an image processing unit connected to the detection unit for the receiving focal depth and connected to the at least one camera for receiving the at least one electronic image, which image processing unit establishes the image portion in the at least one electronic image constituting the base of the deep channel in the electronic image, and a control unit connected to the image processing unit for receiving the established alignment for outputting control signals.

Microscope system and method for automated alignment of a microscope

A surgical assistance system includes an endomicroscope () and an imaging device () for capturing image data, and a transmission unit () for transmitting the image data. A pathology unit () includes a receiving unit () for receiving the image data and a display unit () displays the image data. A data connection () connects the transmission unit () to the receiving unit (). The imaging device () and/or the endomicroscope () has at least one functional unit assigned to a functional control unit (). A data receiving unit () receives data from the pathology unit (). The pathology unit () has an input unit () for inputting functional control data for the functional control unit () and a transmitter unit () transmits the functional control data to the devices. The data receiving unit () receives and relays the functional control data to the functional control unit ().

Surgical assistance system

A visualization system includes a surgical microscope assembly for viewing a surgical region under magnification. The surgical microscope assembly is provided with a computer unit having a display for displaying image data. A detection arrangement is configured to detect endoscopic images in the surgical region and is operatively coupled to the surgical microscope assembly. A circuit actuable by a viewing person is configured to detect actuation data. The circuit is configured to set an operating state of the surgical microscope assembly matched to the detection arrangement in response to a presence of the actuation data for the surgical microscope assembly.

Visualization system for providing endoscopic images and method for operation the same

A surgical system has a surgical microscope with an imaging optical unit and a control unit for setting imaging parameters of the microscope. The system further has an image processing device for overlaying an overlay image stored in the image processing device with an image generated by the microscope. A data processing unit is connected to the control unit of the microscope and to the image processing device. The control unit is configured such that, before a change of at least one imaging parameter of the microscope from a first value to a second value, it stores both the first value and the second value and makes them available to the data processing unit. The image processing device is configured in such a manner that it modifies the overlay image in a manner corresponding to the stored first and second values of the at least one imaging parameter.

Surgical microscope having a data unit and method for overlaying images

An breathing or anesthesia apparatus and a process for operating a breathing or anesthesia apparatus are provided in which only a very low energy consumption occurs outside of the operating times. The breathing or anesthesia apparatus () is put into an energy-saving mode and a function pretest is performed before putting the apparatus into the energy-saving mode. A function self-test is carried out when the breathing or anesthesia apparatus is put into a standby mode.

Respirator

The invention is directed to an apparatus for finding a functional tissue area in a tissue region. The apparatus has a measurement illuminating device suitable for emitting measurement illumination to the tissue region and a camera which can capture light reflected by the tissue region. The camera has a green channel and/or a blue channel wherein there is a change in an optical property of the light reflected by the tissue region during the stimulation thereof which is undertaken at least intermittently. An evaluation unit captures the change in the optical property only by a signal of the green channel and/or of the blue channel of the camera. A display unit can display an output signal of the evaluation unit for the functional tissue area in the tissue region.

Apparatus for finding a functional tissue area in a tissue region

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