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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Pierre Marc Aprahamian, Limersheim, FR;
Francine Heisel, Strasbourg, FR;
Alfredo Lucia, Osmate, IT;
Joseph-Albert Miehe, Strasbourg, FR;
Malgorzata Sowinska, Ittenheim, FR;
Maurice Whelan, Ranco, IT;
Assignee:
Communaute Europeenne, Luxembourg, LU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 ;
Abstract
A method for detecting and mapping inflamed zones in living tissues and a device for implementing the method. The method includes subjecting the tissues to be analyzed to a luminous excitation with a predetermined spectral domain, acquiring at least the raw fluorescence signal of the porphyrins for a plurality of measurement points, and in determining, for each measurement point, the intensity of the fluorescence for the wavelengths characteristic of endogenous porphyrins.