US 7,460,894 B2
Biological optical measuring instrument
Tsuneaki Kawaguchi, Shounan-machi (Japan); Eiji Furuzono, Ushiku (Japan); Mikihiro Kaga, Abiko (Japan); and Satoshi Onozuka, Ryugasaki (Japan)
Assigned to Hitachi Medical Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/484,004
PCT Filed Jul. 19, 2002, PCT No. PCT/JP02/07350
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Jun. 22, 2004,
PCT Pub. No. WO03/008944, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 30, 2003.
Claims priority of application No. 2001-220093 (JP), filed on Jul. 19, 2001; and application No. 2002-090000 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2004/0236195 A1, Nov. 25, 2004
Int. Cl. A61B 5/1455 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 600—310  [600/473; 600/476] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A biomedical optical measurement apparatus comprising:
a light source means for generating an inspection light containing multiple lights modulated at a given number of different frequencies,
a light-receiving means for receiving the light generated at said light source means and passed through an object to be examined and for outputting synthesized signals made of a given number of electric signals each having a different frequency and an intensity corresponding to the received light, and
a detection means for detecting a signal with the same frequency as a frequency of a reference signal having a frequency corresponding to frequencies of modulated multiple lights in the synthesized signals, wherein
said detection means comprises:
an analog-digital conversion means for outputting digitized synthesized signal data by converting said synthesized signals having different frequencies to a digital signal,
a storage means for storing digitized data of a number of reference signals, where the number of reference signals is equal to the number of the synthesized signals output from the light-receiving means,
a delaying means for delaying said reference signals data read out from the storage means based on phase differences between said synthesized signals data output from said analog-digital conversion means and said reference signals data read out from the storage means,
a digital multiplication means for multiplying said synthesized signals data output from said analog-digital conversion means by said reference signals data delayed by the delaying means and for outputting the product of multiplication, and
a digital band-limitation means for taking out DC data from the output from said digital multiplication means.