METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SMARTPHONE MAPPING OF TISSUE COMPOUNDS

摘要

The invention relates to imaging technologies, in particular to remote imaging of tissue chromophore and/or fluorophore distribution by means of a smartphone or a similar mobile device. Goal of the invention is to ensure easy use of smartphones (or similar mobile devices, originally comprising at least one camera, display, processing unit and battery) with appropriate software for remote mapping of tissue compounds. Invention proposes tissue chromophore and/or fluorophore mapping and/or indication of clinically critical values of their content on the display of smartphone by converting images of the same tissue area taken by smartphone camera under spectrally specific illumination and using the internal computing resources of smartphone for image processing. Five supporting device designs are proposed along with two methods used for image processing.