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Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 16, 2013
Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kei Kubo, Tokyo, JP;

Yasushige Ishihara, Tokyo, JP;

Hiromi Shida, Tokyo, JP;

Satoshi Takekoshi, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0071 (2013.01); A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/043 (2013.01); A61B 1/0638 (2013.01); A61B 1/0646 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided is a fluoroscopy apparatus including a fluorescence-image generating portion that generates a fluorescence image; an identifying portion that identifies a position of a high-luminance region in the fluorescence image; a storage portion that stores the position of the high-luminance region; a detecting portion that detects an amount of change in a physical quantity, which can possibly act as a cause of changes in a property of the high-luminance region, starting from a time at which the position of the high-luminance region is identified by the identifying portion; a confidence-level calculating portion that calculates a confidence level of the property of the high-luminance region based on the detected amount of change; and a display-image generating portion that generates a display image in which the display mode at the position of the high-luminance region is set in accordance with the confidence level.


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