Laser-induced flashing alert, control, or compensation
AssigneeGyrus ACMI, Inc. d/b/a Olympus Surgical Technologies America
InventorsSergey A. Bukesov, Kurt G. Shelton, Maria Rao, David Bloem
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Abstract
A system for endoscopically imaging a first target of a patient, using a light source and a light detector, and for laser-treating a same or different second target of the patient, using a laser source, the system. For example, the system can have at least signal processing circuitry, which can include a target response signal laser-source flashing component detector and a flashing analyzer.
Claims1
A system for endoscopically imaging a first target of a patient, using a light source and a light detector, and for laser-treating a same or different second target of the patient, using a laser source, the system comprising:
- signal processing circuitry, couplable to the light detector to receive a target response signal indicative of light received from the patient in response to illumination by at least one of the light source and the laser source, the signal processing circuitry including:
- a target response signal laser-source flashing component detector, to detect a laser-source flashing component of the target response signal;
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- a flashing analyzer, to receive the laser-source flashing component of the target response signal from the target response signal flashing component detector, and to generate a flashing alert or flashing control signal based at least in part on an indication of an amount of the laser-source flashing component of the target response signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.