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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
May. 14, 2009
Osamu Ishikawa, Osaka, JP;
Terumasa Yamada, Osaka, JP;
Kunihito Gotoh, Osaka, JP;
Mitsuharu Miwa, Hamamatsu, JP;
Takahiro Shikayama, Hamamatsu, JP;
Osamu Ishikawa, Osaka, JP;
Terumasa Yamada, Osaka, JP;
Kunihito Gotoh, Osaka, JP;
Mitsuharu Miwa, Hamamatsu, JP;
Takahiro Shikayama, Hamamatsu, JP;
Osaka Prefectural Hospital Organization, Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
A method of detecting an accessory cancer lesion, comprising an administration step wherein indocyanine green is administered to a living body, an irradiation step wherein a target organ suspected of having cancer is surgically exposed and irradiated with excitation light of indocyanine green, an imaging step wherein a near-infrared fluorescence intensity distribution image from the excited indocyanine green in the target organ is obtained, and an identification step wherein an area having the near-infrared fluorescence in the intensity distribution image, excluding the area detected in preoperative examination or intraoperative macroscopic observation, is identified as an accessory cancer lesion.