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Omnispectramammography
Assignee: StapleVision Inc
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Filing: 1997-04-21
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Granted: 1998-09-08
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Expires: 2017-04-21
Abstract
Abstract An omnidirectional, multispectral and multimodal sensor/display processor for the screening, examination, detection, and diagnosis of breast cancer. Its capabilities are accomplished through stable vision fusion of the Doppler-like differences of selective radiologic wavelengths, besides X-ray mammograms, e.g., ultraviolet (UV.), visible and infrared (IR), with-vision-computer discrimination of other active and passive observables of electromagnetic fields, and medical data, including the optimum color ratios and 3-dimensional (3D) transformation of multiple imaging modalities, e.g., ultrasound, nuclear computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), etc., to obtain the "concurrence of evidence" necessary for maximum confidence levels, generated at minimal cost and with minimum false positives, at the earliest possible breast cancer detection point.
Inventors
- 👤 John J. Stapleton
- 👤 Barbara K. Stapleton
- 👤 Raymond W. Saxon, Jr.
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-06 21:34
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61B; A61B5/00; A61B5/41; A61B5/414; A61B5/415; A61B5/0059; A61B5/0082; A61B5/0091; A61B5/418; A61B5/43; A61B5/4306; A61B5/4312
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 15
Claim 1
Independent Claim
188 words
A sensor/display processor comprising: a charge transfer device having a focal plane array and a charge; a laser or narrowband filtered lamp for photogating said focal plane array of said charge transfer device; optical means and spectral filter means to collect and focus photons from anatomy emittance, reflectance and transillumination onto said focal plane array of said charge transfer device: video amplifiers and processing means coupled to said charge transfer device to convert a discrete analog transmission signal proportional to said charge to a digital density signal proportional to logarithm of transmission reciprocal or opacity; fiberoptic equalization means for automatically compensating with fault-tolerant correction for nonuniformities in the charge transfer device and the optical means and spectral filter means; fusion processor means for measuring weighted likelihoods and ratios of multispectral observables to detect cancer with minimum false negatives and false positives; and display means having stable vision for displaying invisible observables in optimum color having Uniform Chromaticity Space du, dv less than 0.01, for encoding tumor diffusivity in one color when approaching and in a different color when receding to effect its scientific visualization providing a magenta Doppler.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
188 words
A sensor/display processor comprising: a charge transfer device having a focal plane array and a charge; a laser or narrowband filtered lamp for photogating said focal plane array of said charge transfer device; optical means and spectral filter means to collect and focus photons from anatomy emittance, reflectance and transillumination onto said focal plane array of said charge transfer device: video amplifiers and processing means coupled to said charge transfer device to convert a discrete analog transmission signal proportional to said charge to a digital density signal proportional to logarithm of transmission reciprocal or opacity; fiberoptic equalization means for automatically compensating with fault-tolerant correction for nonuniformities in the charge transfer device and the optical means and spectral filter means; fusion processor means for measuring weighted likelihoods and ratios of multispectral observables to detect cancer with minimum false negatives and false positives; and display means having stable vision for displaying invisible observables in optimum color having Uniform Chromaticity Space du, dv less than 0.01, for encoding tumor diffusivity in one color when approaching and in a different color when receding to effect its scientific visualization providing a magenta Doppler.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
19 words
The invention in accordance with claim 1 wherein said optical means comprises optical fibers assembled in a bra-like structure.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
16 words
The invention in accordance with claim 2 wherein said optical fibers further includes an achromatic lens.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
22 words
The invention in accordance with claim 3 wherein said laser or narrowband filtered lamp performs transmissive and transreflective illumination, detection and diagnosis.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
25 words
The invention in accordance with claim 4 which includes magenta Doppler encoding means for detecting cancer diffusivity after minimal doubling times of cancer cell growth.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
16 words
The invention in accordance with claim 2 wherein said optical fibers further includes achromatic reflective optics.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
21 words
The invention in accordance with claim 3 wherein said laser or narrowband filtered lamp performs transmissive and transreflective illumination and treatment.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
15 words
The invention in accordance with claim 1 wherein said optical means comprises an achromatic lens.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
22 words
The invention in accordance with claim 1 wherein said laser or narrowband filtered lamp performs transmissive and transreflective illumination, detection and diagnosis.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
25 words
The invention in accordance with claim 1 which includes magenta Doppler encoding means for detecting cancer diffusivity after minimal doubling times of cancer cell growth.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
30 words
The invention in accordance with claim 1 which further includes vision-computer means for automatically and substantially realtime detection of atypical cell growth by recognition of Doppler-like shifts in color ratios.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
26 words
The invention in accordance with claim 1 wherein said fusion processor means further includes means for conformal mapping and comparisons of multiple modalities of medical imaging.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
15 words
The invention in accordance with claim 1 wherein said optical means comprises achromatic reflective optics.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
20 words
The invention in accordance with claim 1 wherein said laser or narrowband lamp performs transmissive and transreflective illumination and treatment.
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