ICG fluorescence imaging and its medical applications

Mitsuharu Miwa; Takahiro Shikayama

doi:10.1117/12.817856

2 February 2009 ICG fluorescence imaging and its medical applications

Mitsuharu Miwa, Takahiro Shikayama

Proceedings Volume 7160, 2008 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optoelectronic Measurement Technology and Applications; 71600K (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.817856
Event: International Conference of Optical Instrument and Technology, 2008, Beijing, China

Abstract

This paper presents a novel optical angiography system, and introduces its medical applications. We developed the optical enhanced imaging system which can observe the blood and lymphatic vessels as the Indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence image. The imaging system consists of 760nm light emitted diode (LED) as excite light, CCD camera as a detector, a high-pass optical filter in front of the CCD and video processing system. The advantage of ICG fluorescence method is safe (radiation free), high sensitive, real time monitoring of blood and/or lymphatic flow, small size, easy to operate and cost effective compared to conventional X-ray angiography or scintigraphy. We have applied this method to several clinical applications such as breast cancer sentinel lymph node (SLN) navigation, lymph edema diagnostic and identification of liver segmentation. In each application, ICG fluorescence method shows useful result. It's indicated that this method is promising technique as optical angiography.

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Mitsuharu Miwa and Takahiro Shikayama "ICG fluorescence imaging and its medical applications", Proc. SPIE 7160, 2008 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optoelectronic Measurement Technology and Applications, 71600K (2 February 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.817856

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