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US 10,743,771 B2Granted
Photoacoustic image generation apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorRika Tashiro
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Abstract
An insertion needle includes an outer needle and an inner needle, and the inner needle includes a light emitting portion and a photoacoustic wave generating portion. An insertion and removal detection unit detects that the inner needle of the insertion needle has been removed from the outer needle. In a case where it is detected that the inner needle has been removed, a processing switching unit changes the image display so as to be different from the image display before it is detected that the inner needle has been removed.
Claims17
A photoacoustic image generation apparatus, comprising:
- an insertion needle that has an outer needle having an inner cavity and an inner needle removably inserted into the inner cavity of the outer needle, the inner needle including a light emitting portion that emits light guided from a light source and a photoacoustic wave generating portion that absorbs the light emitted from the light emitting portion to generate photoacoustic waves;
- acoustic wave detection unit for detecting the photoacoustic waves emitted from the photoacoustic wave generating portion;
- photoacoustic image generation unit for generating a photoacoustic image based on the detected photoacoustic waves;
- image output unit for displaying the photoacoustic image on image display unit;
- insertion and removal detection unit for detecting that the inner needle has been removed from the outer needle;
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- processing switching unit for changing image display so as to be different from image display before it is detected that the inner needle has been removed in a case where it is detected that the inner needle has been removed.
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