Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona;John BLACK
发明人:
Jennifer Barton,Urs Utzinger,Tyler Tate,Maureen Keenan,John Black
申请号：
US15548692
公开号：
US20180014773A1
申请日:
2016.02.03
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要：
A falloposcope is described, as is a method of screening a patient for fallopian tube and/or ovarian cancer with the Falloposcope. The falloposcope has an optical imaging subsystem capable of performing optical and fluorescence imaging, and an optical coherence tomography (OCT) channel, with a diameter of about 0.7 millimeter. The method includes inserting the falloposcope through a lumen of vagina, cervix, uterus, and fallopian tube such that a tip of the falloposcope is in proximity to a first fallopian tube or ovary of the patient； providing at least one fluorescence stimulus wavelength through an illumination fiber of the falloposcope, while imaging light at one or more fluorescence emission wavelengths through a coherent fiber bundle to form fluorescence emissions images； and determining suspect tissue from the fluorescence emission images. The OCT channel is also used to examine abnormalities in in-vivo female tissue, both to determine suspect tissue and analyze suspect abnormal tissue from fluorescence observations.
