Abstract: An imaging method includes: irradiating breast tissue with infrared light, detecting light in a narrow wavelength band selected from wavelength bands from 1400 nm or more to 1600 nm or less, among light radiated from the tissue irradiated with the infrared light, and generating, based on the detected light in the narrow wavelength band, an image to specify an area in the tissue containing breast cancer cell aggregation or breast cancer tissue.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 16, 2018
Date of Patent:
September 10, 2019
Assignees:
JAPAN ORGANIZATION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, NIKON CORPORATION
Abstract: An imaging method includes: irradiating breast tissue with infrared light, detecting light in a narrow wavelength band selected from wavelength bands from 1400 nm or more to 1600 nm or less, among light radiated from the tissue irradiated with the infrared light, and generating, based on the detected light in the narrow wavelength band, an image to specify an area in the tissue containing breast cancer cell aggregation or breast cancer tissue.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 16, 2018
Publication date:
July 19, 2018
Applicants:
JAPAN ORGANIZATION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, NIKON CORPORATION