Photoacoustic apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShuichi Kobayashi
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Abstract
A photoacoustic apparatus includes an acoustic lens configured to collect a acoustic wave, an acoustic detector configured to detect the acoustic wave collected by the acoustic lens, a driver configured to move at least one of the acoustic detector and the acoustic lens so as to measure the acoustic wave generated from an object to be measured due to a photoacoustic effect, and a controller configured to output a first measurement signal resulting from the acoustic wave that is generated from a first position in the object, and to eliminate a second measurement signal resulting from the acoustic wave that is generated from a second position different from the first position in the object.
Claims9
A photoacoustic apparatus comprising:
- an acoustic lens configured to collect a acoustic wave;
- an acoustic detector configured to detect the acoustic wave collected by the acoustic lens;
- a driver configured to move at least one of the acoustic detector and the acoustic lens so as to measure the acoustic wave generated from an object to be measured due to a photoacoustic effect;
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- a controller configured to output a first measurement signal resulting from the acoustic wave that is generated from a first position in the object, and to eliminate a second measurement signal resulting from the acoustic wave that is generated from a second position different from the first position in the object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.