EP0830789A1 - Systeme d'imagerie avec traitement independant de l'energie de la lumiere visible et de la lumiere infrarouge - Google Patents

Systeme d'imagerie avec traitement independant de l'energie de la lumiere visible et de la lumiere infrarouge

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EP0830789A1
EP0830789A1 EP96922489A EP96922489A EP0830789A1 EP 0830789 A1 EP0830789 A1 EP 0830789A1 EP 96922489 A EP96922489 A EP 96922489A EP 96922489 A EP96922489 A EP 96922489A EP 0830789 A1 EP0830789 A1 EP 0830789A1
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light
filter
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light energy
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Mark G. Fontenot
Richard Feinberg
Howard Katz
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Stryker Corp
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Gabriel Medical Inc
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N5/00—Details of television systems
    • H04N5/30—Transforming light or analogous information into electric information
    • H04N5/33—Transforming infrared radiation
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N23/00—Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
    • H04N23/10—Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof for generating image signals from different wavelengths
    • H04N23/11—Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof for generating image signals from different wavelengths for generating image signals from visible and infrared light wavelengths
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N23/00—Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
    • H04N23/50—Constructional details
    • H04N23/555—Constructional details for picking-up images in sites, inaccessible due to their dimensions or hazardous conditions, e.g. endoscopes or borescopes
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/18—Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

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  • the present invention relates to methods and apparatus for imaging the site of an operation as well as various body parts in the region of an operation and more particularly to simultaneous or alternate display of the site of the operation as well as organs, passages, etc., in the region of the operation to avoid inadvertent damage to such organs, passages, vessels and the like.
  • BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In prior applications of one of the present inventors, there are disclosed various methods and apparatus for illuminating, primarily, though not necessarily, with infrared, various body parts in the region of a body invasive procedure which body parts are to be protected against inadvertent cutting or other damage or trauma. Infrared light energy is preferred since such energy penetrates surrounding tissue to a significantly greater extent than visible light.
  • a catheter is inserted into the ureter of a patient and a light guide is inserted into the catheter.
  • the light guide is modified such that a predetermined length of the distal end of the guide will, when the proximate end is connected to an infrared light source, emit infrared light energy generally transverse to the length of the guide.
  • Various means may be used to detect the infrared light energy and thus locate the body member to be protected.
  • the various means for detecting the infrared light energy may include a video camera sensitive to such energy, means for display of an image thus produced on a monitor along with images of the site of the operation, a detector that provides an audible or visual indication of the location of the body member to be protected or a combination of both approaches.
  • An additional problem that has developed is in the use of an endoscopic light source.
  • the source introduces infrared light into the region of the surgery or of investigation.
  • Such additional infrared light reduces the gain of the system to infrared light.
  • the removal of the IR filter from the laparoscopic camera reduces certain color compensation provided by such filter and, for instance, causes dried blood to look almost black instead of dark red.
  • Yet another object of the present invention is to collect both color signals and infrared signals from a site and to process the signals for subsequent display in separate channels or in a single channel.
  • Another object of the present invention is to add to an endoscope an infrared blocking and color compensating filter whereby no IR light is introduced into a surgical site by the endoscopic light source and color produced in the viewing region is compensated to provide a realistic image of the site.
  • Yet another object of the present invention is to remove from a laparoscopic camera employed in viewing a surgical site or site of a body invasion procedure, an IR blocking and color enhancing filter and adding the filter to an endoscopic light source path whereby to increase the camera's response to infrared light energy from a source of light other than the endoscopic source.
  • IR blocking and color enhancing filter and adding the filter to an endoscopic light source path whereby to increase the camera's response to infrared light energy from a source of light other than the endoscopic source.
  • light from an imaging lens or endoscopic coupling lens is directed to a beam splitter prism having a dichroic filter oriented at 45° to the direction of the propagation axis of the light (optical axis) .
  • the visible light proceeds directly through the prism to a standard color CCD camera chip mounted at the exit region of light from the prism along the optical axis.
  • An infrared blocking filter is normally placed in front of the CCD of the standard video color camera and in this situation it is removed from the camera and placed in the visual light path to eliminate any infrared light that may have passed through the dichroic filter.
  • the signal from the visual light CCD may be processed conventionally or various enhancement techniques such as edge enhancement may be employed.
  • the infrared light energy is reflected from the dichroic filter at right angles to the optical path and directly to an infrared sensitive monochrome CCD camera chip.
  • This chip is also mounted on an edge of the prism without or with a visible light blocking filter so as to eliminate any visual light that may have been reflected by the dichroic filter. Appropriate adjustment may be independently made in the length of the paths of the two light spectra through the prism to correct for the different focal lengths of the two light spectra.
  • the signal produced by the now infrared light sensitive CCD may be processed in a number of ways: gain enhancement, digital edge detection, addition of pseudo ⁇ color, etc. Further by adjusting the controls manually or electronically it is possible to display one or the other light image, alternate the displays or display both images at once. The ability to independently control gain of the images permits enhancement of one relative to the other when displayed concurrently or to provide equal intensity of display.
  • an infrared blocking filter and a visual light blocking filter are arranged on a slide, rotatable disk or the like (hereinafter “slide”) that by moving the slide inserts one or the other of the filters in the light path to an infrared sensitive color video camera.
  • the original processing of the individual signals may be as in the preferred embodiment by switching various processing circuits in and out depending upon the position of the slide.
  • the slide may also compensate for path length and the camera must be able to sense infrared light energy as well as visible light energy.
  • Simultaneous display of light and infrared images is not directly achievable without storage in a system employing such a system but by employing for instance a rotating disk synchronized with the electronics of the system a display of great clarity of both images is possible. If storage of signals is employed, the signals of both images may be displayed at the same time, combined and displayed as a single set of signals or displayed separately.
  • a rotating disk has red, green and blue transmitting filters as well as an infrared transmitting filter all arranged in a circular path along the disk.
  • the camera is a monochrome video camera and signal processing circuits synchronized with the electronics of the system produce the required color mix to reproduce the colors in the field of view.
  • any desired visible color such as purple or a very bright green, may be electronically substituted so that the body member to be protected shows up differently from the other areas of the surgical site and body members in the area.
  • the infrared filter has compensating optics to correct for the different IR focal length of the common imaging optics.
  • the rotating wheel embodiment has advantages over the split prism approach in that there is no image inversion, it provides full motion video, has no registration errors and has a cost advantage as a result of the availability of off-the- shelf hardware.
  • a liquid crystal shutter may be employed such as a Varispec RGB filter.
  • the advantages of such are obvious because length of time of display of a single color is readily controlled. For instance, in a given situation the surgeon may find that a green only and IR display with false color provides him with the detail he desires. In this latter system (and in the rotating disk system if, for instance, a servomotor is employed) the surgeon has complete (and uncomplicated) control over the display. He can readily have a red false color display of the IR signal and thus have a red-green display of the different elements in the view. As indicated immediately above, the same effect is achievable with a rotating disk by moving only between a fixed color and IR segments using servo control.
  • a bi-directional stepper motor may also be employed but does not provide quite the same flexibility as a servo control. It is also of interest that the liquid crystal filter can be used with the slide discussed above and with control of the crystal, a very simple but highly flexible system can be provided. In such a structure red, green and blue liquid crystal filters may be aligned in series in the optical path with each filter selectively energized by applying a voltage thereacross. Such a- filter is available from Cambridge Research and Instrumentation of Cambridge, Massachusetts under the name "Varispec".
  • the standard endoscopic camera has an IR filter over the silicon CCD; this filter also supplying color compensation to the light received from the site of the procedure.
  • this filter is removed from the camera and placed in the path of the light from the endoscopic light source.
  • This procedure produces several results in numerous benefits. It results in rendering the camera sensitive to infrared light while preventing the endoscope from introducing infrared light energy into the site of the procedure which would reduce the response of the camera to the infrared light from the IR source.
  • the filter removed from the camera has color compensation included in it so that the color display on the monitor is more realistic and approximates the color rendition previously produced by the filter when located in front of the CCD of the camera.
  • the light cable from an endoscopic light source to an endoscope houses a filter that blocks infrared from the light source and adds a cyan color to the light.
  • CM500 light filter is cyan in color, blocks near infrared light and adds color to the light illuminating the surgical field. To the naked and unaided eye, the light exiting the light cable appears cyan in color. However, this cyan filtered light that illuminates the surgical field corrects or compensates for reflected light from organs and instruments during an endoscopic procedure that is captured by the laparoscopic camera. The net effect is an improvement in the color fidelity of the imaged field using the aforesaid camera.
  • the CM500 infrared and color compensating filter must be removed from the camera and replaced with a filter that is transparent to visible and infrared light.
  • the CM500 compensating filter or other appropriate filter is placed between the endoscopic light source and the surgical field. Note, in the typical endoscopic camera, the CM500 filter is located between the surgical field and the CCD. 3.
  • the light incident in the body cavity during endoscopic procedures using an endoscopic cable with the CM500 color compensating filter is free of infrared and is cyan colored.
  • color compensating filters can be used on other than xenon and metal halide light sources to correct for cameras that are set up for other light sources.
  • Figure 3 illustrates a slide containing an infrared and a color filter to permit such signals to be processed in a single channel
  • Figure 4 illustrates a viewing system employing a single channel for independently processing color and infrared light energy signals
  • Figure 5 illustrates a rotatable disk for use in the system of Figure 3
  • Figure 6 illustrates a color separation system employing LCD filters
  • Figure 7 illustrates a prism system for separating infrared light and the red, green and blue light signals of a visible light spectrum
  • Figure 8 is a graph of the sensitivity of the laparoscopic camera(s) to visible and infrared light energy
  • Figure 9 is a view of the endoscope with a color correcting and infrared blocking filter attached thereto.
  • FIG 10 illustrates a system employing the endoscope of Figure 9.
  • DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT INVENTION Referring specifically to Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings there is illustrated an imaging system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
  • a beam splitter prism 2 has a dichroic filter 4 extending at approximately 45° from the upper left hand corner of the prism to the lower right hand corner.
  • Light from an imaging lens enters the prism from the left as viewed in Figure 1 and visual light proceeds directly through the filter along the optical axis of the light to the right edge of the prism.
  • a charge coupled device (CCD) color camera chip 6 is secured to the right vertical surface (as viewed in Figure 1) of the prism 2.
  • CCD charge coupled device
  • the chip 6 is equipped with the standard infrared blocking filter (6a) so that any infrared light energy that does penetrate the dichroic filter is blocked at the CCD.
  • the output signal from the chip is applied via signal processing electronics 8 and display electronics 10 to a color TV monitor 12 where the color images may be displayed.
  • Infrared light energy entering the prism 2 along the optical path is deflected, by the dichroic filter, in this instance 90°, so as to proceed at right angles to the optical path and impinge upon a second CCD 14 of a camera.
  • the CCD 14 has had the conventional infrared light energy blocking filter omitted so that this camera is sensitive to such light energy. If convenient a visible light blocking filter 14a to eliminate visible light that may have been deflected by the filter 4 may be employed.
  • the infrared image is reversed relative to the visible light image.
  • This problem can be corrected by the use of corrective lenses or by use of a prism employing an even number of reflections or by digitizing all signals and employing conventional digital techniques to reverse the infrared image.
  • Such an approach requires an A/D converter and a store that can reverse the digits on interrogation such as disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 3,756,231 to Faustini.
  • the CCD 14 is a monochrome sensitive chip with high IR sensitivity.
  • the output signal from the chip 14 proceeds via signal processing electronics 16, and the display electronics 10 to the monitor 12.
  • the signals from the signal processing electronics 8 and 16 are combined in the display electronics 10 so that the display on the monitor 12 is a composite of the two signals.
  • chromatic aberration visible light and infrared light do not focus at the same distance from an imaging lens resulting in a partially blurred image of either the visible light or infrared light image.
  • This problem is readily corrected in accordance with the present invention by making the prism rectangular so that one path is longer than the other to the extent necessary to correct focal length or by inserting a filter of the proper depth. Specifically, the path of the infrared light is made longer than that of the visible light.
  • the imaging lens may be an endoscopic imaging lens.
  • a lens is also used in co-pending application Serial No. 08/305,296 filed September 15, 1994, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
  • the lens may be that of the optical instrument illustrated in Figure 4 of U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 08/190,516 having a Notice of Allowance issued therein. The disclosure of such application is also incorporated herein by reference.
  • Such lenses are available from Universe Kogaku or F Prime Optics and others.
  • the designations of right, left, up and down refer to the objects illustrated in Figure 1 and are not limiting since the location of the lens, prism, CCDs, etc. may readily be changed as long as the relative location of the elements to the optical axis remain the same.
  • the circuitry of signal processing electronics are essentially standard signal processing circuits and a simplified system is illustrated in block diagram form in Figure 2.
  • the signal processing electronics includes and reference is made only to electronics 8 since the electronics of channels 8 and 16 may be identical, a preamp 18, correlated double sampler 20, and an analog- to-digital converter 22 for developing signals for processing by digital signal processor 24.
  • the processing is controlled by user selected processing programs stored in memory 26.
  • the program may include facility for edge enhancement, gain control, image coring, gamma control and the like.
  • color may be added to the infrared derived signal.
  • the preamp 18 and other elements are employed in the other two embodiments of the invention.
  • the display electronics 10 includes all standard elements including, for instance, a frame buffer memory in which the signals of the two channels are stored frame by frame for synchronized transmission to a digital-to-analog converter where the signals are combined and fed to a video amplifier, sync generator and deflection control circuits and thence to a color monitor.
  • the elements employed are all standard items and the programs are relatively simple by today's standards.
  • An image carrying light guide 28 introduces light to a lens 30 that focuses light on a color video camera CCD 32 through a slide 34.
  • the slide includes a color pass filter 36 and an IR pass filter 38 and is biased to an upward position as illustrated in Figure 3 by a compression spring 40.
  • the slide is configured to be operated by a surgeon or his/her assistant; the view can be changed by merely depressing the slide.
  • the CCD 32 has the IR blocking filter omitted so that it is sensitive to infrared light energy which when the filter 38 is depressed is passed to the CCD 32.
  • the CCD 32 feeds its signals to a preamp, such as preamp 18 of Figure 2, and thence through the circuits 8 or 16 of Figure 2.
  • the slide 34 has a notch 42 or other detectable physical characteristic (magnet, mirror, etc.) that is detectable by a sensor 44.
  • the sensor sends a signal to circuitry in communication with User Selected Processing Programs, such as stored in element 26 of Figure 2 to select which program is to be in use, one for color - one for infrared.
  • the two sets of signals may be displayed individually or stored and combined for concurrent display.
  • FIG. 4 Another single channel system is illustrated in Figures 4 and 5 of the accompanying drawings.
  • This system employs only a monochrome CCD video camera with the IR blocking filter omitted and all color is provided by processing circuits.
  • a lens 50 that receives light from a source via, for instance, an image carrying light guide, focuses light on a monochrome video CCD camera 52 through a circular filter wheel 54.
  • the filter wheel 54 see Figure 5, has red, green, blue and infrared pass filters disposed in a circular array about the filter wheel; the red, green and blue colors constituting the additive color primaries employed in video to process the complete visual spectrum.
  • the filter wheel has an index notch 56 in its periphery for purposes described subsequently.
  • the filter wheel 54 is rotated by a motor 58 under control of a motor controller 60.
  • the periphery of the wheel 54 is rotated through a slot 62 in an index sensor 64 that produces a synchronizing signal for a specific position of the wheel.
  • the signal from the index sensor is processed through the motor controller, where the angular position of the motor is controlled, and thence to a write controller 66.
  • the video camera 52 also supplies its output signals to the write controller which distributes signals to dual port frame memory circuits 68, 70 and 72 as determined by the position of the filter wheel.
  • the write controller which distributes signals to dual port frame memory circuits 68, 70 and 72 as determined by the position of the filter wheel.
  • the signal produced by camera 52 is gated to the circuit 68.
  • green and blue signals are gated sequentially to circuits 70 and 72.
  • these signals are converted to digital signals, applied to a lookup table and a signal of an intensity determined by the amplitude of, for instance, the incoming red signal, is made available to the "read" or output circuit of the write-read circuit 68.
  • the signal produced when the IR filter disposed between the lens and camera is applied to IR write-read circuit 74 having its own lookup table.
  • the write controller 66 supplies indexed output control signals to system controller 76.
  • the controller 76 outputs signals to a read controller 78.
  • This element appropriately times the output of the system and also permits selection of which signals are to be displayed; color, infrared or both.
  • the read controller synchronizes this with impingement of the electron beam of monitor 80 on the red CRT phosphor.
  • processing of the individual signals may take place as desired and may be accomplished in the read controller 78, the write-read circuits or both but most appropriately in the system controller 76.
  • This controller may have input from a keyboard 82, RS232 input or rotary controls on a front panel. Control may be over color mix to highlight a particular element of the view, adding color particularly to the IR signal, or produce true color or an increase in color intensity and shading or providing "false" colors. Also the wheel 54 may be stopped so that a particular color element may be viewed for an extended time.
  • the system of Figure 4 provides a single channel system using a monochrome camera with extreme flexibility and reasonable cost.
  • the use of a single camera reduces cost and avoids the image inversion and registration problems of a prism based system.
  • the physical components can be quite small particularly if they are to be used in an operating room or the like.
  • the motor-disk structure may readily be smaller than illustrated in Figure 4 so that the entire physical system produces no problems in an operating room.
  • the monochrome camera is available from ELMO TSE-270, the dual port frame memory may be a Fidelity 100 or Vision-EZ from Data Translation and others, the image software stored in the system controller 76 is available from NOESIS as Visilog or Image-Pro from Media Cybernetics and others.
  • a circuit for processing the monochrome images to produce color is available from
  • the precision motor is available from Globe or Micro-Mo.
  • the write controller via keyboard 82 or other input controls, if desired, may control all of the display functions; color, other processing such as edge enhancement, etc. as set forth above, all in conventional manner using conventional programs.
  • the color wheel may be replaced by a series of LCD color filters (red, green and blue) aligned in series and energized sequentially by well known techniques such as a rotary switch.
  • the switch may be an electronic switch for rapid processing of signals and/or manually operated or keyboard controlled to permit the surgeon or an attendant to select a single color or even two of the three colors.
  • the advantage of such a system is size and no mechanical inertia.
  • the system is illustrated in Figure 6 and is quite simple. It employs four LCD filters 81, 83, 85 and 87, filter 81 for IR and each of the others for a different color.
  • a color or monochrome CCD 93 is also employed.
  • Each filter passes all light from IR through the visible spectrum except when energized. When energized it passes only the color for which it is designed. Thus when it is desired to pass IR only the filter 81 is energized and only infrared is passed through the system.
  • Each of the other filters 83, 85 and 87 are energized in sequence so the red, green and blue are passed in sequence; the IR filters being in the sequence also. Thus a stationary color sequential system is provided with no moving parts.
  • a beam splitter prism 82 employs a dichroic filter 84 to separate visible light energy from infrared light energy. As in the embodiment of Figure 1 the infrared light energy is reflected from the filter 84 through a visible light blocking filter 86 to a CCD 88 associated with a monochrome camera sensitive to infrared light energy and thence to processing circuits.
  • the visible light proceeds along the optical path through an IR blocking filter 90 to a prism set 92, 94, 97 that splits the visible light into red, green and blue light energies.
  • the green light energy proceeds directly along the optical axis and through a trim filter 96 to a CCD 98.
  • Blue light energy is deflected from prism 94, back through prism 92, thru through a trim filter 102 to a CCD 104.
  • Red light energy is deflected from the rear and then front surface of prism 94, through a trim filter 108 to a CCD 110.
  • the CCDs 88, 98, 104 and 110 are monochromatic and may be processed as discussed relative to the embodiment of Figure 4.
  • all commercially available endoscopic cameras use either single or three chip silicon photodiode CCDs.
  • the typical current responsivity of silicon CCDs ranges from 300 run to 1,150, peaking at approximately 900 nm.
  • the endoscopic camera uses a single chip silicon CCD, and therefore is confined to the limitations of the silicon CCDs, i.e., in the present system wavelengths from 300 nm to 1, 150 nm.
  • the imaging system of the present invention employs a different light filtering scheme. This significant modification is important when attempting to identify infrared transilluminated structures and allow true fidelity color imaging of the surgical field.
  • the camera detects visible light in the same range as other commercially available single chip CCD endoscopic cameras.
  • the camera detects infrared (see Figure 8) as well as visible light.
  • the IR filter is replaced with a sapphire window that readily passes IR flight energy as well as visible light.
  • the camera can efficiently detect the infrared transilluminated ureters when used with the endoscope light sensor whereas typical endoscopic cameras cannot ( Figure 8) .
  • the only difference between the camera of the present invention and the commercially available camera employed herein is replacement of the IR blocking and color compensating filter with a sapphire filter that passes light in the range of 300 - 2700 nm.
  • a light cable houses a filter 114 that blocks infrared light from an endoscopic light source and adds a cyan color to the light illuminating the surgical field.
  • the light exiting the light cable appears cyan in color.
  • this cyan filtered light that illuminates the surgical field corrects or compensates for reflected light from organs and instruments during an endoscopic procedure that is captured by the camera.
  • the net effect is an improvement in the color fidelity of the imaged field, produced by the camera in accordance with the invention.

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Afin de protéger les membres voisins lors d'une intervention inv asive mise en ÷uvre sur un corps, le membre à protéger est éclairé de préférence par infrarouge, et la totalité du site de l'intervention invasive est observée à travers un système optique qui transmet l'énergie de la lumière infrarouge et l'énergie de la lumière visible à une ou plusieurs caméras vidéos (127). Différentes structures peuvent être employées pour séparer les énergies de la lumière visible et de la lumière infrarouge, de façon que les signaux représentant ces énergies lumineuses puissent être traités séparément et de manière différente si cela est souhaité, et soient ensuite recombinés pour l'affichage, ou soient affichés séparément sur un écran vidéo en couleurs (128). Le site est éclairé par de la lumière émise, par exemple, par un endoscope (129). Entre la source et l'endoscope se trouve un filtre arrêtant l'énergie de la lumière infrarouge et assurant la correction chromatique de la lumière fournie à la ou aux caméras.
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