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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1990
Fumio Kawaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Takeuchi, Matsudo, JP;
Yasuhiro Mitsui, Fuchu, JP;
Yoshitoshi Ito, Ome, JP;
Munetaka Haida, Isehara, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.