摘要 |
<p>A radial scanner configured to image the interior of a tube includes, in an embodiment, a housing having a transparent window, a photo-sensing array, a mirror located within the housing and oriented to direct an image around a circumference of an interior surface of the tube outside the transparent window to the photo-sensing array, and a light source configured to illuminate the interior surface of the tube, wherein the photo-sensing array is configured to receive the image around the circumference as a circular line scan. In an embodiment, the radial scanner is deployed as an ingestible capsule, hi another embodiment, the radial scanner is deployed as a fiber optic catheter. In another embodiment, the radial scanner is ingestible.</p> |
申请人 |
INNURVATION, INC.;BANDY, WILLIAM, ROBERT;JAMIESON, BRIAN, GLENN;POWELL, KEVIN, JAMES;SALSMAN, KENNETH, EDWARD;SCHOBER, ROBERT, CHARLES;WEITZNER, JOHN;ARNESON, MICHAEL, R.;GRUNNET-JEPSEN, ANDERS |
发明人 |
BANDY, WILLIAM, ROBERT;JAMIESON, BRIAN, GLENN;POWELL, KEVIN, JAMES;SALSMAN, KENNETH, EDWARD;SCHOBER, ROBERT, CHARLES;WEITZNER, JOHN;ARNESON, MICHAEL, R.;GRUNNET-JEPSEN, ANDERS |