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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
May. 30, 2008
Kazuhiko Fukutani, Yokohama, JP;
Takao Nakajima, Ebina, JP;
Kenichi Nagae, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasuhiro Someda, Yokohama, JP;
Yasufumi Asao, Atsugi, JP;
Kazuhiko Fukutani, Yokohama, JP;
Takao Nakajima, Ebina, JP;
Kenichi Nagae, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasuhiro Someda, Yokohama, JP;
Yasufumi Asao, Atsugi, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An intravital-information imaging apparatus includes light sources for irradiating a living body with light, and acoustic-wave detectors that detect acoustic waves generated from a light absorber having absorbed part of energy of the light from the light sources, the light absorber existing in the living body. Furthermore, the intravital-information imaging apparatus includes signal processors that calculate information representing a distribution of optical characteristic values of the living body using sound pressures of the acoustic waves generated from the light absorber.