Jane A. Sheetz,Jere J. Brophy,David C. Youmans,Paul G. Ritchie
申请号：
US11651255
公开号：
US08801606B2
申请日:
2007.01.09
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2014
代理人:
摘要：
A method of monitoring a condition within a patients body includes locating a scanned beam imaging unit at an imaging location for a period of time to observe and characterize a portion of the patients anatomy over at least a portion of the period of time. The scanned beam imaging unit is located at the imaging location using a locating instrument. The locating instrument is removed from the patients body with the scanned beam imaging unit remaining at the imaging location. With the scanned beam imaging unit at the imaging location, a beam of light is scanned across the portion of the anatomy and light is received from the portion of the anatomy. A video image of the portion of the anatomy is produced from imaging data generated using detected light received from the portion of the anatomy.
