Medical lighting composed of LED arrays for surgical operation

Junichi Shimada; Yoichi Kawakami; Shigeo Fujita

doi:10.1117/12.426847

14 May 2001 Medical lighting composed of LED arrays for surgical operation

Junichi Shimada, Yoichi Kawakami, Shigeo Fujita

Proceedings Volume 4278, Light-Emitting Diodes: Research, Manufacturing, and Applications V; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.426847
Event: Symposium on Integrated Optics, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Everywhere in the world, the highest quality and quantity of lighting is required during the surgical operations. However, the surgical approach has had many types and various angles, common ceiling surgical halogen lighting system cannot provide an adequate amount of beams because the surgeons' heads hinder the illuminations from reaching the operation field. Here, we newly design surgical lighting system composed of white LEDs equipped on both sides of goggles, which controls the lighting beams to the gazing point. With this system, it is just needed for surgeons to wear light plastic goggles with high quality LEDs made by Nichia. In fact, we have succeeded in the first internal shunt operation in the left forearm using the surgical LED lighting system on 11th Sept 2000. The electrical power for the system was supplied from lithium-ion battery for 2 hours. Since the white LEDs used were composed of InGaN- blue-emitters and YAG-yellow-phosphors, the color rendering property was not sufficient in the reddish colors. Therefore, in the next approach, it is very important to develop the spectral distribution of white LED to render inherent color of raw flesh such as skin, blood, fat tissue and internal organs.

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Junichi Shimada, Yoichi Kawakami, and Shigeo Fujita "Medical lighting composed of LED arrays for surgical operation", Proc. SPIE 4278, Light-Emitting Diodes: Research, Manufacturing, and Applications V, (14 May 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.426847

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