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US 11,684,259 B2Granted
Pupillometer for lesion location determination
AssigneePurdue Research Foundation
InventorBin Chen
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a novel pupilometer and method of using the pupilometer to record and analyze direct and consensual reflex of pupils to identify brain lesion locations of a patient with brain injuries.
Claims4
An electronic flashlight-like pupillometer for measurement of direct and consensual pupillary light responses of the eyes of a patient, which pupillometer comprises:
- a housing;
- an imaging device in the housing;
- a set of infrared light sources in the housing for image and/or video acquisition;
- an infrared light filter in front of the imaging device in the housing that allows the passage of infrared light and substantially blocks all visible lights;
- a first visible light source in the housing that can provide a visible light to the first eye of the patient;
- a second visible light source that is outside of the housing, extendable from the housing, and can provide a visible light to the second eye of the patient when the imaging device is simultaneously taking image and/or video of the first eye;
- an image and/or video acquisition component consisting of a light subsystem and an image/video acquisition subsystem configured to manipulate the visible light source, the infrared light source, and the imaging device for acquiring image/video from both eyes, and recording direct and consensual pupillary reflex response:
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- a data processing component configured to determine pupil size and shape using a convolution neural network and to quantify pupillary response for disease diagnosis and determination of lesion locations;
- wherein the infrared light source in the housing can continuously illuminate the first and/or second eye of the patient with infrared light from the infrared light source during a test to provide the necessary illumination for the image/video acquisition.
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