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US 2010/0063402 A1Published application
Imaging spectrometer for early detection of skin cancer
OwnerAndrew I. Sheinisinventor
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Abstract
An imaging spectrometer provides substantially simultaneous areal spectroscopy and image generation to provide improved analysis of possible skin cancer.
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An instrument (10) for detection of skin cancer comprising:
- a multi-spectral illumination source (22) for illuminating a region of skin;
- a solid-state image sensor (38) providing multi-spectral sensitivity;
- an optical system (27) receiving light from the illuminated region of skin to optically remap light from regions of an image onto an image sensor as discontiguous regions;
- a dispersion element (40, 71) positioned between the image sensor and the optical system to project spectra of the discontiguous regions (30) onto the image sensor outside of the discontiguous regions;
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- an image processor (43) receiving the spectra and analyzing the spectra to identify cancerous features.
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An instrument (10) for detection of skin cancer comprising:
- a multi-spectral illumination source (22) for illuminating a region of skin;
- a solid-state image sensor (38) providing multi-spectral sensitivity;
- an optical system (27) for simultaneously measuring an areal image of the region of the skin composed of multiple contiguous elements (28) and the spectra (42) of the multiple contiguous elements;
- an image processor (43) receiving the spectra and the image to identify cancerous features.
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