| US 7,447,538 B2 | ||
| Method and apparatus for displaying a tissue containing a fluorescent dye | ||
| Thomas Ehben, Weisendorf (Germany); Sebastian Schmidt, Erlangen (Germany); and Wolfgang Strob, Erlangen (Germany) | ||
| Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (Germany) | ||
| Filed on Sep. 25, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/525,905. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10 2005 045 961 (DE), filed on Sep. 26, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0083124 A1, Apr. 12, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 600—476 [600/431] | 15 Claims |

| 1. A method for displaying a tissue containing a fluorescent dye, at least in sections, comprising:
illuminating the tissue with a first light for exciting the fluorescent dye and includes a clock frequency given by a periodic
sequence of illumination phases and dark phases;
separately acquiring first fluorescent images generated during the illumination phases by excitation of the fluorescent dye,
and second fluorescent images generated during the dark phases by an illumination of the tissue with a second light;
correcting the first fluorescent images by subtracting second fluorescent images corresponding thereto; and
generating overall images by superimposing on the corrected first fluorescent images corresponding native tissue images which
reproduce a tissue surface, wherein a number of second fluorescent images are acquired in a fashion following one another
temporally during the dark phase, and
wherein, for the purpose of producing a second fluorescent image, at least one late fluorescent image acquired during a prescribed
late time interval of the dark phase is subtracted from at least one early fluorescent image acquired in relation to a prescribed
early time interval.
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