Object information acquiring apparatus and method for controlling same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoichiro Wanda
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Abstract
Disclosed is a photoacoustic wave diagnosing apparatus including a holding unit that presses and holds an object during imaging; a photoacoustic measuring unit that measures information on the photoacoustic wave of the object pressed by the holding unit; an optical coefficient acquiring unit that acquires an optical coefficient based on the object in the pressed state; and a reconstruction unit that performs image reconstruction based on the information on a photoacoustic wave signal measured by the photoacoustic measuring unit and the optical coefficient acquired by the optical coefficient acquiring unit.
Claims6
An object information acquiring apparatus, comprising:
- a holding unit that holds an object;
- an irradiating unit that irradiates the object with light;
- a photoacoustic measuring unit that measures a photoacoustic wave generated when the irradiating unit irradiates the object held by the holding unit with the light;
- an optical coefficient acquiring unit that acquires an optical coefficient of the object;
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- a processing unit that generates property information inside the object using the photoacoustic wave measured by the photoacoustic measuring unit and the optical coefficient acquired by the optical coefficient acquiring unit, wherein
- the optical coefficient acquiring unit acquires the optical coefficient by irradiating the object held by the holding unit with the light.
A method for controlling an object information acquiring apparatus having a holding unit that holds an object and an irradiating unit that irradiates the object with light, the method comprising the steps of:
- measuring a photoacoustic wave generated when the irradiating unit irradiates the object held by the holding unit with the light;
- acquiring an optical coefficient of the object by irradiating the object held by the holding unit with the light;
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- generating property information inside the object using the photoacoustic wave and the optical coefficient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.