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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 27, 1995
Branko Palcic, Vancouver, CA;
Calum MacAulay, Vancouver, CA;
Bruno Jaggi, Vancouver, CA;
Stephen Lam, Vancouver, CA;
Amedeus E Profio, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Jaclyn Hung, Vancouver, CA;
Xillix Technologies Corporation, Vancouver, CA;
Abstract
Apparatus for imaging diseases in tissue comprising a light source for generating excitation light that includes wavelengths capable of generating characteristic autofluorescence for abnormal and normal tissue. A fibreoptic illuminating light guide is used to illuminate tissue with light that includes at least the excitation light thereby exciting the tissue to emit the characteristic autofluorescence. An imaging bundle collects emitted autofluorescence light from the tissue. The autofluorescence light is filtered into spectral bands in which the autofluorescence intensity for abnormal tissue is substantially different from normal tissue and the autofluorescence intensity for abnormal tissue is substantially similar to normal tissue. An optical system is used to intercept the filtered autofluorescence light to acquire at least two filtered emitted autofluorescence images of the tissue. The acquired images are displayed in real time on a display monitor in such a manner as to delineate abnormal and normal tissue.