Technical Name Imaging Device and Displaying Method by Using Indocyanine Green
Project Operator Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital
Project Host 陳維聆
Summary
Lymphedema is a chronic, progressive, and debilitating disease. Near-infrared fluorescent imaging of arm lymphatic vessel architecture and function in breast cancer-related lymphedema and control subjects revealed a trend of increased lymphatic abnormalities in both the afflicted and unafflicted arms with increasing time after lymphedema onset.
Scientific Breakthrough
Rapid scanning limb volume device to evaluate the therapeutic effect of lymphedema before and after rehabilitation. Miniaturize the Near-infrared fluorescent imaging device and to classify lymphedema Lymphatic network of patients.
Industrial Applicability
The hand-held device for indocyanine green fluorescent imaging has rather poor image stability, and its light source modules can be small in size, high in cost, and difficult to product. Therefore, the development of a device capable of simultaneously imaging blood vessels and lymphatic images on a real patient's body picture, equipped with a mobile platform is necessory.
Keyword Indocyanine green Breast Cancer Post Operative Breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL) 785nm excitation light 830nm emission light Lymphoscintigraphy Near-infrared fluorescence ( NIRF) surgical plan Evaluate limb volume Augmented Reality
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