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Title:
PHOTOACOUSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2011120795
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provided a photoacoustic apparatus recognizable of light quantity unevenness, occurring on a surface of an analyte, and decreasing image unevenness resulted from the light quantity unevenness.

The photoacoustic apparatus includes: a light source 100 to irradiate the analyte with light; an optical system 101 to guide the light from the light source to the analyte; a detecting unit 104 comprising a receiving element to receive an acoustic wave generated in the analyte by the light; a signal processing unit 108 to acquire information about the inside of the analyte from a detected signal acquired from the detecting unit; an optical absorber 102 to absorb the light irradiated from the light source; and a calculation unit 111 to calculate irradiation intensity distribution of the light on the basis of the detected signal acquired when the receiving element receives the acoustic wave generated from the optical absorber.


Inventors:
SATO AKIRA
SUDO YOSHIAKI
Application Number:
JP2009282287A
Publication Date:
June 23, 2011
Filing Date:
December 11, 2009
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Assignee:
CANON KK
International Classes:
A61B8/08; G01N29/00; G01N29/30
Domestic Patent References:
JP2009031268A2009-02-12
JP2009018153A2009-01-29
JP2007259913A2007-10-11
JP2008267919A2008-11-06
JP2009011593A2009-01-22
JP2006516207A2006-06-29
JP2008253482A2008-10-23
JP2009136324A2009-06-25
JP2009142321A2009-07-02
JP2009031268A2009-02-12
JP2009018153A2009-01-29
JP2007259913A2007-10-11
JP2008267919A2008-11-06
JP2009011593A2009-01-22
JP2006516207A2006-06-29
Foreign References:
WO2008103982A22008-08-28
WO2005107592A12005-11-17
WO2008103982A22008-08-28
WO2005107592A12005-11-17
Other References:
JPN7014001123; RAZANSKY DANIEL ET AL: '"Hybrid photoacoustic fluorescence molecular tomography using finite-element-based inversion"' MEDICAL PHYSICS vol. 34, 20071019, p.4293-4301
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takuma Abe
Sogo Kuroiwa