Patent ID: 9404868
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: A61B,G01N

Claim Text:
1. A measuring device, comprising: measurement data obtaining means for obtaining, from a scanning mechanism including an excitation light irradiation unit for irradiating a measurement target with excitation light and a light receiving unit for receiving fluorescence generated from the measurement target upon irradiation with the excitation light, measurement data representing optical characteristics of the fluorescence; position information obtaining means for obtaining, from a driving mechanism for controlling relative positions of the scanning mechanism and the measurement target, position information indicating an irradiation position where the measurement target is irradiated with the excitation light when the measurement data is obtained; fluorescence characteristic management means for extracting, as a feature variable, fluorescence intensity at a particular florescence wavelength from the measurement data, and for preparing fluorescence characteristic data including the position information and the feature variable; fluorescence characteristic analysis means for preparing map information by plotting the feature variable on a map based on the position information; and image preparation means for preparing a visualization image to display the map information on a display unit, wherein the excitation light irradiation unit includes plural types of light sources having different excitation wavelengths, the measurement data obtaining means obtains measurement data that differs per the excitation wavelength, the fluorescence characteristic management means prepares the fluorescence characteristic data per the position information and per the excitation wavelength, the fluorescence characteristic analysis means compares, per the position information, fluorescence intensity in the measurement data linked in correspondence relation with a first excitation wavelength and fluorescence intensity in the measurement data linked in correspondence relation with a second excitation wavelength, and assigns information indicating that a result of the comparison satisfies a predetermined condition to the feature variable plotted at a position indicated by the position information, and the image preparation means prepares the visualization image in a way of highlighting the feature variable to which the information is assigned.