Hitachi, Ltd.

Nihon Kohden Corporation

Tokai University

Munetaka Haida

Yoshitoshi Ito

Fumio Kawaguchi

Yukito Shinohara

Norio Ishikawa

Yasuhiro Mitsui

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Hidehiro Hosaka

Katsumi Nakaichi

A pupil dilating dilution is dropped into one of the left eye or the right eye of a subject. Video cameras 1A, 1B are directed toward the bulbs of the eyes 22A, 22B, and output video signals on the pupils of both left and right eyes. These video signals are delivered to an area calculating circuit 7 through video camera control units 4A, 4B and an image receiving circuit 6. The area calculating circuit 7 calculates the areas of the given pupils of both left and right eyes, and applies the calculated results to a digital computer 8. The digital computer 8 calculates a difference between the given pupil areas of both the left and right eyes, calculates an index value relating to the magnification of the pupil area based on the calculated difference, and judges whether or not the subject is affected with Alzheimer's disease.

Disease judging apparatus

A device for measuring the inside information of a light-scattering specimen using a Line Spread Function (LSF) function of a light-scattering specimen and the intensity distribution of light which is transmitted through the light scattering specimen in repeating light scattering and output from the light scattering specimen. The device comprises: an optical system for illumination for irradiating a specimen to be measured (a light scattering specimen); an optical system for detection for detecting the transmitted light through the specimen; and a data processor for operating the detected transmitted light data. The above-mentioned data processor operates the inside information of a specimen to be measured based on the light intensity distribution of the transmitted light through the specimen and an LSF function which is newly defined, and displays the inside information as a tomograph image.

Optical CT imaging device

A method for optically inspecting a human body and an apparatus for the same serve to scan a light pulse having a visible wavelength to an infrared one on a specific sliced portion of a body to be inspected, for obtaining pieces of projection data about light absorption and to reconstruct an image about distribution of light absorption from the projection data with a computer tomogram. The projection data is measured by alternately radiating a first light pulse at a first wavelength in an absorption wavelength band specific to metabolic materials to be imaged and a second light pulse at a second wavelength being closer to said first wavelength. Then, the data about the transmitted beams are produced by deriving a ratio of integrated values of the first signal to the second one residing within a specific time gate.

Method for optically inspecting human body and apparatus for the same

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Isehara, Japan

Munetaka Haida