WO2013014912A1 - Appareil d'acquisition d'informations de propriété - Google Patents

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WO2013014912A1
WO2013014912A1 PCT/JP2012/004671 JP2012004671W WO2013014912A1 WO 2013014912 A1 WO2013014912 A1 WO 2013014912A1 JP 2012004671 W JP2012004671 W JP 2012004671W WO 2013014912 A1 WO2013014912 A1 WO 2013014912A1
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Hiroshi Nishihara
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B5/00—Measuring for diagnostic purposes; Identification of persons
    • A61B5/0059—Measuring for diagnostic purposes; Identification of persons using light, e.g. diagnosis by transillumination, diascopy, fluorescence
    • A61B5/0082—Measuring for diagnostic purposes; Identification of persons using light, e.g. diagnosis by transillumination, diascopy, fluorescence adapted for particular medical purposes
    • A61B5/0091—Measuring for diagnostic purposes; Identification of persons using light, e.g. diagnosis by transillumination, diascopy, fluorescence adapted for particular medical purposes for mammography
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B5/00—Measuring for diagnostic purposes; Identification of persons
    • A61B5/0093—Detecting, measuring or recording by applying one single type of energy and measuring its conversion into another type of energy
    • A61B5/0095—Detecting, measuring or recording by applying one single type of energy and measuring its conversion into another type of energy by applying light and detecting acoustic waves, i.e. photoacoustic measurements
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B6/00—Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis; Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis combined with radiation therapy equipment
    • A61B6/04—Positioning of patients; Tiltable beds or the like
    • A61B6/0407—Supports, e.g. tables or beds, for the body or parts of the body
    • A61B6/0414—Supports, e.g. tables or beds, for the body or parts of the body with compression means
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B6/00—Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis; Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis combined with radiation therapy equipment
    • A61B6/04—Positioning of patients; Tiltable beds or the like
    • A61B6/0407—Supports, e.g. tables or beds, for the body or parts of the body
    • A61B6/0435—Supports, e.g. tables or beds, for the body or parts of the body with means for imaging suspended breasts
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B8/00—Diagnosis using ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves
    • A61B8/08—Detecting organic movements or changes, e.g. tumours, cysts, swellings
    • A61B8/0825—Detecting organic movements or changes, e.g. tumours, cysts, swellings for diagnosis of the breast, e.g. mammography
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B8/00—Diagnosis using ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves
    • A61B8/40—Positioning of patients, e.g. means for holding or immobilising parts of the patient's body
    • A61B8/403—Positioning of patients, e.g. means for holding or immobilising parts of the patient's body using compression means
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B8/00—Diagnosis using ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves
    • A61B8/40—Positioning of patients, e.g. means for holding or immobilising parts of the patient's body
    • A61B8/406—Positioning of patients, e.g. means for holding or immobilising parts of the patient's body using means for diagnosing suspended breasts

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  • the present invention relates to an apparatus that acquires properties of an object body.
  • a breast examination apparatus including a bed on which an object person is placed face down and in which breasts of the object person are inserted into a hole provided in the bed is known.
  • a breast examination apparatus in which inserted breasts are held and pressed between a breast pressing plate made of a material that allows X rays to pass through and a radiographic plate including a sensor is disclosed (see, for example, Patent Literature 1).
  • Fig. 5 shows a breast examination apparatus disclosed by Patent Literature 1.
  • a fixed pressing plate 53 and a pressing plate 38 capable of being driven with respect to the pressing plate 53 are provided.
  • an object person lets her breasts sag downward through a breast insertion opening provided in a bed as a support platform and the saggy breasts sandwiched between the breast pressing plates are irradiated with X rays to take radiographs.
  • This is due to consideration given to be able to restrict movement of an object person and make correct measurements by constructing an apparatus capable of taking radiographs while the object person is in a relaxed state without straining the posture of the object person.
  • a breast examination apparatus including a breast pressing plate made of a material that allows X rays and ultrasound waves to pass through to obtain radiographs and ultrasound wave echo images of breasts pressed by the breast pressing plate is disclosed (see, for example, Patent Literature 2).
  • the photoacoustic effect is a phenomenon in which when a substance is irradiated with a pulsed light in nanoseconds, the substance absorbs light energy in accordance with optical absorption properties and an elastic wave is generated by the substance being expanded instantaneously. The elastic wave is detected by an ultrasonic transducer and a received signal is obtained.
  • the sound pressure distribution generated by the photoacoustic effect can be converted into images. Because hemoglobin has a high absorption factor of near infrared light compared with water, fat, and proteins constituting a body tissue, neovascularization or metabolism of oxygen can suitably be measured by the above method. Clinical research applied to diagnosis of breast cancer or the like by using such a photoacoustic effect is actively pursued.
  • a breast pressing plate as described above may also be provided in a breast examination apparatus using the photoacoustic effect. Objectives thereof include preventing breasts from moving during measurement to change the measuring point and also making the breasts thinner by pressing to obtain an image of deeper portions.
  • the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances and an object thereof is to provide an apparatus that is capable of measuring a whole object area of an object person in a wide range and acquires property information of an object body.
  • the present invention provides a property information acquiring apparatus, comprising: a supporting unit that supports an object person and includes an aperture through which an object area of the object person is inserted; a holding unit that holds the object area inserted through the aperture; and a receiving unit that is arranged near the supporting unit and receives information about properties of the object area, wherein the holding unit includes a restricting unit that restricts deformation generated in the supporting unit by the object person being supported by the supporting unit.
  • a property information acquiring apparatus of an object body capable of measuring an object area of an object person can be provided.
  • Fig. 1A is a perspective view showing an outline of a breast examination apparatus.
  • Fig. 1B is a partial sectional view showing the outline of the breast examination apparatus.
  • Fig. 2A is a perspective view showing a configuration of a measuring unit.
  • Fig. 2B is a partial sectional view showing the configuration of the measuring unit.
  • Fig. 2C is a partial enlarged view showing a region A of the measuring unit.
  • Fig. 2D is a partial enlarged view showing a region B of the measuring unit.
  • Fig. 3 is a block diagram of an ultrasonic transducer unit.
  • Fig. 4 is another example of first and second weight supporting units.
  • Fig. 5 is a block diagram of a breast pressing apparatus in Background Art.
  • Figs. 1A and 1B show schematic diagrams of the breast examination apparatus using the photoacoustic effect.
  • Fig. 1A is a perspective view and Fig. 1B is a partial sectional view viewed from the X direction of Fig. 1A.
  • reference numeral 100 is a measuring unit
  • reference numeral 200 is a bed unit
  • reference numeral 300 is a light source unit
  • reference numeral 400 is an electric unit
  • E is an object person.
  • the measuring unit 100 is an apparatus to measure breasts as an object area of an object person using photoacoustic effect and includes, though details thereof will be described later, a chest wall supporting plate constituting a supporting unit supporting the object person, an ultrasonic transducer as a receiving unit, and a pressing plate as a holding unit that holds the object area.
  • the bed unit 200 is an apparatus on which to place the object person E face down (prone position), is provided with a breast insertion opening 201 as an aperture through which breasts as an object area of the object person, and includes a bed 202 constituting a supporting unit supporting the object person together with the above chest wall supporting plate and a bed pillar 203 supporting the bed 202.
  • the light source unit 300 as a light irradiating unit irradiating breasts as an object area with light includes a laser light source that emits pulsed light on the order of nanoseconds of a specific wavelength shone on the breasts of the object person E.
  • the light emitted from the laser light source is guided into the measuring unit 100 by a light guiding optical system such as an optical fiber (not shown).
  • the wavelength of light emitted from the laser light source is selected in accordance with the absorption spectrum of water, fat, proteins, oxygenated hemoglobin, and reduced hemoglobin constituting a body tissue.
  • the wavelength in the range of 600 to 1500 nm at which light is well transmitted and spectra of fat, oxygenated hemoglobin, and reduced hemoglobin are featured is appropriate.
  • a semiconductor laser or wavelength tunable laser generating different wavelengths may be configured.
  • the electric unit 400 includes a power supply unit that supplies power to the measuring unit 100 and the light source unit 300, a control unit that controls these units, and a signal processing unit that processes a signal measured by the measuring unit 100.
  • the signal processing unit converts the sound pressure distribution of an elastic wave (acoustic wave) generated by the photoacoustic effect into images.
  • Fig. 2A is a perspective view
  • Fig. 2B is a partial sectional view viewed from the X direction of Fig. 2A
  • Fig. 2C is a partial enlarged view of a region A of Fig. 2B
  • Fig. 2D is a partial enlarged view of a region B of Fig. 2B.
  • a first pressing plate 1 (first holding unit) that presses and holds caudal (foot-side) breasts of the object person E and a first chest wall supporting plate 2 supporting the chest wall near the underbust are mounted on a first pressing plate supporting base 3.
  • An ultrasonic transducer unit 500 including an ultrasonic transducer 13 (not shown) as a receiving unit to receive an acoustic wave generated by breasts as an object area after breasts as an object area being irradiated with light by the light source unit 300 as a light irradiating unit is mounted on the first pressing plate 1 in close contact therewith via a matching agent.
  • the ultrasonic transducer unit 500 is arranged in such a way that the ultrasonic transducer 13 (not shown) as a receiving unit is positioned near the first chest wall supporting plate 2 constituting a supporting unit. Then, the ultrasonic transducer unit 500 is driven to scan in the X and Z directions (on the XZ plane) of Fig. 2A by a scanning mechanism (not shown).
  • a second pressing plate 4 (second holding unit) that presses and holds cephalic breasts of the object person E and a second chest wall supporting plate 5 supporting the cephalic chest wall are mounted on a slide mechanism moving in the Y direction of Fig. 2A.
  • the slide mechanism is constituted of two principal axes 7 fixed to the first pressing plate supporting base 3 and a second pressing plate supporting base 6, a bearing 8 sliding by being guided by the principal axes 7, and a first bearing housing 9 and a second bearing housing 10 holding the bearing 8.
  • the second bearing housing 10 is provided with a nut 17 and the second pressing plate 4 is moved in the Y direction of Fig. 2A by a screw 11 being rotated by a motor 12.
  • the first pressing plate 1 (first holding unit), the second pressing plate 4 (second holding unit), and the above slide mechanism constitute a press holding apparatus.
  • Objectives of including the apparatus include preventing breasts from moving during measurement to change the measuring point and also making the breasts thinner by pressing to enable conversion of deeper portions into images.
  • breasts are pressed and held by two pressing plates. While breasts as an object area are pressed and held in the present embodiment, pressing is not needed if it is enough to hold breasts as an object area in such a way that the measuring point thereof does not change. In such a case, the slide mechanism or the second pressing plate may become unnecessary depending on the shape or arrangement of the first pressing plate (first holding unit).
  • an illumination unit 600 guiding laser light emitted from the light source unit 300 to breasts is provided.
  • the illumination unit 600 is driven to scan in synchronization with driving of the ultrasonic transducer unit 500 in the X and Z directions (on the XZ plane) by a scanning mechanism (not shown).
  • Fig. 3 is a block diagram of the ultrasonic transducer unit 500.
  • the ultrasonic transducer unit 500 includes a housing 15 on which the ultrasonic transducer 13 as a receiving unit and an illuminating optical system 14 are mounted.
  • the housing 15 is also provided with a seal member 16 to hold the matching agent between the first pressing plate 1 and the ultrasonic transducer 13.
  • the ultrasonic transducer 13 as a receiving unit is arranged opposite to breasts as an object area via the first pressing plate 1 as a first holding unit.
  • the first pressing plate 1 preferably has high transmission properties and low attenuation properties with respect to an elastic wave (acoustic wave) generated by the photoacoustic effect and also has high transmission properties and low attenuation properties with respect to light emitted from a laser light source.
  • the material forming the first pressing plate 1 include quartz glass, polymethyl pentene polymers, polycarbonate, and acryl.
  • the matching agent it is similarly necessary for the matching agent to have high transmission properties and low attenuation properties with respect to an elastic wave (acoustic wave) generated by the photoacoustic effect and also have high transmission properties and low attenuation properties with respect to light emitted from a laser light source.
  • the matching agent include water, castor oil, gel for ultrasonic echo examination, and polyethylene glycol.
  • the second pressing plate 4 as a second holding unit is a flat plate having high transmission properties and low attenuation properties with respect to light emitted from a laser light source.
  • Examples of the material forming the second pressing plate 4 include glass, polymethyl pentene polymers, polycarbonate, and acryl.
  • the first chest wall supporting plate 2 is provided between the chest wall of the object person E and the ultrasonic transducer unit 500.
  • the second chest wall supporting plate 5 is provided between the chest wall of the object person E and the illumination unit 600.
  • the first chest wall supporting plate 2 and the second chest wall supporting plate 5 are provided to support a portion (chest wall or the like) near breasts (object area) of the object person to prevent skins, panniculi, or muscles near the rib or clavicle to sag to the outer side of the breast pressing plates and radiographic plates under the influence of gravity, which is a problem of a conventional breast examination apparatus. Accordingly, interference of the chest wall, which is sagging due to gravity, with the ultrasonic transducer unit 500 or the illumination unit 600 can be avoided in a prone type property information acquiring apparatus like in the present embodiment.
  • the first chest wall supporting plate 2 and the second chest wall supporting plate 5 are deformed (bent or deflected) in the -Z direction of Fig. 2A by supporting the object person E. It is necessary to set the scanning range in the Z direction of the ultrasonic transducer unit 500 to a range that is not affected even if the first chest wall supporting plate 2 is bent. It is also necessary to set the scanning range in the Z direction of the illumination unit 600 to a range that is not affected even if the second chest wall supporting plate 5 is bent. Thus, making the amount of deformation (amount of bending or deflection) of the first chest wall supporting plate 2 and the second chest wall supporting plate 5 smaller leads to extending an image acquisition region near the chest wall.
  • the pressing plate 1 as a first holding unit includes a restricting unit to restrict the deformation (bending or deflection) of the first chest wall supporting plate 2 as a first supporting unit. More specifically, as shown in Fig. 2C, a portion (hereinafter, this portion will be called a first weight supporting unit W11) holding the first chest wall supporting plate 2 as a first supporting unit is included on the upper portion of the first pressing plate 1 as a first holding unit.
  • a first weight supporting unit W11 a portion holding the first chest wall supporting plate 2 as a first supporting unit is included on the upper portion of the first pressing plate 1 as a first holding unit.
  • the first chest wall supporting plate 2 may prevent an elastic wave generated by the photoacoustic effect and light emitted from a laser light source from passing through.
  • an adhesive may be used to mount these members.
  • these members may be brought into contact without adhesion or may be mounted with a slight gap in such a way that the first chest wall supporting plate 2 comes into contact with the first weight supporting unit W11 when the first chest wall supporting plate 2 is bent due to the weight of the object person.
  • the first weight supporting unit W11 corresponds to a first restricting unit of the present invention.
  • a second weight supporting unit W12 including a surface substantially perpendicular to the direction in which the weight of the object person is applied to the upper portion of the first pressing plate supporting base 3 is provided, as a preferred embodiment, to make the amount of bending (or deflection) of the first chest wall supporting plate 2 still smaller.
  • the first pressing plate supporting base 3 acts as a reinforcing member to make the amount of bending (or deflection) of the first chest wall supporting plate 2 smaller.
  • the thickness of the supporting unit can be understood as a distance between the surface supporting the object person and the surface on the opposite side of the surface supporting the object person. Therefore, it is preferable to make the distance between the surface supporting the object person and the surface on the opposite side of the surface supporting the object person in a portion opposite to the receiving unit smaller than the distance between the surface supporting the object person and the surface on the opposite side of the surface supporting the object person in other portions to widen the measuring range.
  • a screw or an adhesive may be used for bonding. Alternatively, these members may be brought into contact with each other without bonding these members.
  • a first weight supporting unit W21 including a surface substantially perpendicular to the direction in which the weight of the object person is applied to the upper portion of the second pressing plate 4 is provided.
  • the second pressing plate 4 acts as a reinforcing member restricting deformation (bending or deflection) of the second chest wall supporting plate 5.
  • the same method as that used for mounting of the first chest wall supporting plate 2 and the first pressing plate 1 can be adopted.
  • a second weight supporting unit W22 including a surface substantially perpendicular to the direction in which the weight of the object person is applied to the upper portion of the first bearing housing 9 and the second bearing housing 10 may be provided.
  • the two principal axes 7 fixed to the first pressing plate supporting base 3 and the second pressing plate supporting base 6 act as reinforcing members that make the amount of bending (or deflection) of the second chest wall supporting plate 5 smaller.
  • a material with a large Young's modulus is preferable as the material constituting the first chest wall supporting plate 2 and the second chest wall supporting plate 5.
  • a metal or a metallic compound can suitably be used.
  • tungsten carbide having about twice a Young's modulus as that of iron is one of preferable materials.
  • Stainless superior in shape workability and strength is also one of preferable materials.
  • the first pressing plate 1 is formed of polymethyl pentene polymers to a thickness of 10 mm
  • the first chest wall supporting plate 2 is formed of tungsten carbide to a thickness of 3 mm
  • the first pressing plate supporting base 3 is formed of aluminum. Then, calculation shows that the bending (or deflection) when a first weight supporting unit W1 with the width of 5 mm and a second weight supporting unit W2 with the width of 10 mm are provided and a load of 800 N is applied to the upper portion of the first chest wall supporting plate 2 is about 0.12 mm.
  • the first and second weight supporting units shown in the present embodiment are supporting units in a plane shape, but may have, as shown in Fig. 4, a spherical surface SR or a cylindrical surface R.
  • the principal axis 7 is formed of a member of a steel material in a cylindrical shape whose surface is treated to harden.
  • the bearing 8 may be formed of a linear bush or solid bearing that can slide smoothly even if the weight of the object person E is applied.
  • the screw 11 and the nut provided in the second bearing housing 10 may be formed of a ball screw that can be driven with a small coefficient of friction.
  • a DC motor, an AC motor, a stepping motor or the like may be used as the motor 12.
  • the ultrasonic transducer 13 is formed of a piezoelectric element having a piezoelectric effect that converts a change in pressure caused by a received elastic wave into an electric signal and has a plurality of piezoelectric elements arranged in, as shown in Fig. 3, a substantial rectangular shape.
  • Neovascularization involved in growth of tumor such as cancer is known to grow when the size of tumor is 2 to 3 mm or more.
  • a piezoelectric ceramic material suitable for detection of an elastic wave of 0.5 MHz to several tens of MHz generated from an optical absorber of a few mm due to the photoacoustic effect and typified by PZT (lead zirconium titanate) may be used as the piezoelectric element.
  • a polymeric piezoelectric film material typified by PVDF (polyvinylidene difluoride) may be used.
  • the ultrasonic transducer 13 is connected to a signal processing apparatus of the electric unit 400 via a cable.
  • the illuminating optical system 14 is formed of a bundle of a plurality of optical fibers.
  • the light emission end of optical fiber is formed into a substantial rectangular shape as shown in Fig. 3 by adjusting the arrangement of optical fibers.
  • An illuminating optical system equivalent to the illuminating optical system 14 described above is used for the illumination unit 600.
  • a breast examination apparatus As described above, skins, panniculi, or muscles in a portion (chest wall or the like) near breasts as an object area are supported by the first chest wall supporting plate 2 and the second chest wall supporting plate 5. Thus, sagging skins, panniculi, or muscles will not interfere with an ultrasonic transducer. Moreover, by providing a restricting unit that restricts deformation of a chest wall supporting plate as a supporting unit in a unit (pressing plate) holding the object area, bending (or deflection) of the first chest wall supporting plate 2 and the second chest wall supporting plate 5 can be made smaller.
  • a living organism examination apparatus capable of obtaining images near the chest wall of an object person and using a photoacoustic effect.
  • the present invention has been described by taking a breast examination apparatus that receives an elastic wave generated by being irradiated with light and acquires property information of an object body as an example, but the present invention is not limited to such an example and an X-ray irradiation type mammography using an X-ray irradiating unit that irradiates an object area with X rays and a receiving unit that receives X rays with which the object area is irradiated by the X-ray irradiating unit is one of forms to which the present invention can be applied.
  • the present invention has been described by taking a prone measuring apparatus as an example, but the present invention is not limited to such an example and can also be applied to a standing object body information acquiring apparatus.

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La présente invention concerne un appareil d'acquisition d'informations de propriété qui comprend une unité de support qui supporte une personne d'objet, une unité de maintien qui maintient une zone d'objet, et une unité de réception qui reçoit des informations concernant des propriétés de la zone d'objet en étant positionnée près de l'unité de support, l'unité de maintien comprenant une unité de limitation qui limite une déformation générée dans l'unité de support par la personne d'objet qui est supportée par l'unité de support.
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