Real-time clinical diagnostic systems for fluorescent spectrum analysis of tissue cells and methods thereof

• Main Authors: CHENG YI-PING, SU MEI-FANG, TONG YUH-PING, FONG SOU-LIN, CHANG JEN-HAO, LEE SU-JAN, HUNG KUO-FENG, WU CHIHUNG
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.12.2005
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR ENZYMOLOGY OR MICROBIOLOGY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CALCULATING; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; COMPUTING; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; COUNTING; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHYSICS; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; SPIRITS; SURGERY; TESTING; VINEGAR; WINE

Real-time clinical diagnostic expert systems for fluorescent spectrum analysis of tissue cells and methods thereof. An exemplary system includes a set of optical fibers, wherein the first optical fiber introduces an incident light to an subject epidermal tissue, and the second optical fiber receives an auto-fluorescent signal, a set of monochromators, wherein the first monochromator produces the incident light, and the second monochromator produces the auto-fluorescent signal from the second optical fiber, a light detector for detecting the auto-fluorescent signal from the second monochromator, a signal processing unit for plotting a spectrum of the auto-fluorescent signal, and a spectrum analyzing unit comprising a database for analyzing the spectrum with the database to obtain a probability of disease for the subject epidermal tissue.