Patent ID: 11857164
Assignee: LEICA INSTRUMENTS (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for observing an object containing a bolus of at least one fluorophore, the method comprising the steps of:
providing a set of component signals;
accessing a time series input frames representing electronically coded still images of the object, each input frame containing at least one observation area, the observation area comprising at least one pixel;, wherein the method further comprises iterative process steps of:
automatically determining a fluorescent light intensity in the observation area of one of the input frames of the time series, the fluorescent light intensity being determined over at least one fluorescence emission wavelength of the fluorophore;
automatically joining the fluorescent light intensity with respective fluorescence light intensities of the observation area from preceding input frames of the time series to generate a time sequence of fluorescence light intensities of the observation area;
automatically decomposing the time sequence into a combination of at least some component signals of the set;, and wherein an output frame is generated in which the observation area is assigned a color from a color space depending on the combination of component signals, wherein each component signal is a discrete or analytic time curve representing a fluorescence light intensity development of the fluorophore over time in a specific type of tissue and the method comprises the further iterative process step of automatically providing at least a subset of the component signals in the combination as a new set of component signals.