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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2013
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Toshiaki Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/043 (2013.01); A61B 1/0002 (2013.01); A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/00045 (2013.01); A61B 1/0638 (2013.01); A61B 1/0646 (2013.01); A61B 1/0684 (2013.01);
Abstract
A fluorescence endoscope apparatus includes: a light source unit emitting light in a combination of light in plural types of wavelength bands in two types of wavelength ranges of RGB and two types of exciting light, with plural types of emitting patterns and in a time division; an image pickup unit receiving reflected light and two types of fluorescence; and an image-processing unit outputting a white light image and two types of fluorescence images.