Development of a Flexible Infrared Imaging Endoscope

柔性红外成像内窥镜的研制

• 批准号: 6585742
• 负责人: GARY D HAVEY
• 金额: $ 57.74万
• 依托单位: ADVANCED MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-28 至 2006-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6585742
• 关键词: bioimaging /biomedical imaging; biomedical equipment development; body temperature; endoscopy; hyperthermia therapy; infrared radiation; measurement; monitoring device; radiowave radiation; thermometry

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Advanced Medical Electronics (AME) proposes to develop a flexible infrared microbolometer based endoscope for use during surgical heat treatments to accurately measure tissue temperatures. The primary phase II goal is to create the smallest far-infrared camera ever developed to provide real-time spatially accurate two-dimensional surface temperature measurements from the distal tip of an endoscope. The proposed flexible endoscope will be used for both visual thermal imaging in the abdomen during percutaneous thermal treatment of cancer tumors with minimal invasiveness and for endoscopic thermal treatment of surface tissue diseases (i.e. esophageal varices). New medical technologies involving for example concentrated RF energy, can effectively treat tumors and surface tissue diseases. These techniques require a very accurate measure of adjacent surface tissue temperatures for safe and effective application. The proposed system uses a newly available infrared (IR) sensing technology called a microbolometer coupled with a state-of-the-art packaging technique to make these required measurements at the tip of an endoscope and present the information to a surgeon in real-time using a false color display.

描述（由申请人提供）： Advanced Medical Electronics（AME）提议开发基于柔性红外微光计的内窥镜，以便在手术热处理中使用，以准确测量组织温度。 II阶段的主要目标是创建有史以来开发的最小的远红外摄像机，以从内窥镜的远端提供实时精确的二维表面温度测量。所提出的柔性内窥镜将在经皮的癌症热治疗癌症的腹部视觉热成像，并具有最小的侵入性和表面组织疾病的内窥镜热治疗（即食管动物）。涉及浓缩RF能量的新型医疗技术可以有效治疗肿瘤和表面组织疾病。这些技术需要非常准确地衡量相邻的表面组织温度，以进行安全有效的应用。拟议的系统使用新近可用的红外（IR）传感技术，称为微型尺寸，加上最先进的包装技术，在内窥镜的尖端使这些必需的测量值在内窥镜的尖端进行这些必需的测量，并使用错误的颜色显示给外科医生。