Medical Imaging
Developed by
Academia-Industry
Collaboration
in Hamamatsu, Japan
Susumu TERAKAWA
Hamamatsu Univ. Sch. Med.
Fiber-Coupled
Confocal Microscope
for Living Animals

Tumor and Neurons in Living Animals
Tumor cells under the skin
Neurons in the brain
Fiber inserted in the
tumor under skin Yokogawa Electric Co.

Ultra High NA Objective Lens
NA=1.65
Terakawa and Abe
(1994)
d ∝λ/NA
NA=n×sinα
α
Olympus Aurora

Single Molecule Visualization
with High
NA Lens
Effect of a restriction enzyme
on DNA strand
Phage DNA

Endoscope 技術
が必要
Fujinon Co.
Distance
measurement with
laser beams allows

Real-time Scale Display

emote Scope for Medical
Diagnosis
Diagnosis using camera and robot
Echo probe on the patient Echogram examined by the doctor
Hamamatsu Photonics

Surgical Navigator with Optical Scanner
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For na a n
vig tio
S. YAMAMOTO
Photon Med Res Ctr,
Hamamatsu Univ Sch Med
For
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pe tio
seijiy@hama-med.ac.jp
Foo s itc
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Nagashima Medical Instruments Co.,

High Fidelity
Color Image System
New image system for accurate color
acquisition, print and display was
developed for telemedicine.
Y.
SHIMODAIRA,
Shizuoka Univ.
Wide Range
High-fidelity
Color Camera.
High-fidelity Color
Inkjet Printer
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S. KAWAHITO
CMOS Image Sensor Shizuoka University
CMOS camera with a wide dynamic range (DR=160 dB) was developed,
and a time of flight (TOF) detector was made for 2D mapping.
Wide DR
Camera Tunnel and Landscape Usual Image
0. 1. 1.5
TOF Camera 5Distance m
0 Image Usual Image
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