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US 12,599,299 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for multimodal soft tissue diagnostics
AssigneeDENTSPLY SIRONA Inc.
InventorThomas Ertl
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Abstract
A method and device for multimodal imaging of dermal and mucosal lesions. The method includes using at least two imaging modalities from which one is a 3D scan of the lesion, and, additionally providing information on the distance and angulation between scanning device and the dermis or mucosa and mapping at least the second modality over the 3D data.
Claims28
An apparatus for multimodal imaging of a dermal or mucosal lesion comprising:
- a scanning device having illumination light sources, a beam splitter, and sensors, the sensors including a visible light 2D sensor and an infrared light 3D sensor, and the beam splitter being configured to spectrally split detected light into wavelengths appropriate for the visible light 2D sensor and the infrared light 3D sensor;
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- at least one processor configured to:
- compute images from raw data provided by the scanning device which is adapted to use at least two imaging modalities from which a first imaging modality generates 3D data for a 3D image in a 3D scan of a lesion,
- compute 3D information on a distance and angulation between the scanning device and a dermis or mucosa, and
- map at least an image generated by a second imaging modality over the 3D image of the 3D scan based on the 3D information.
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A method for multimodal imaging of a dermal or mucosal lesion comprising:
- computing images from raw data provided by a scanning device having illumination light sources and sensor, the scanning device adapted to use at least two imaging modalities from which a first imaging modality generates 3D data for a 3D image in a 3D scan of the dermal or mucosal lesion, the scanning device having illumination light sources, a beam splitter, and sensors, the sensors including a visible light 2D sensor and an infrared light 3D sensor, and the beam splitter being configured to spectrally split detected light into wavelengths appropriate for the visible light 2D sensor and the infrared light 3D sensor,
- computing 3D information on a distance and an angulation between the scanning device and a dermis or mucosa, and
- mapping at least an image generated by a second imaging modality over the 3D image of the 3D scan based on the 3D information.
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