Patent ID: 8825143
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A medical apparatus comprising: a memory in which information concerning a drug movement in a living body is stored in advance for each of types of a plurality of fluorescent drugs; an arithmetic processing section comprising at least a first hardware processor that is configured to acquire, based on the information stored in the memory, fluorescent drug information including: an image sensor that is configured to pick up an image of an object in the subject; and a position information acquiring section comprising at least a second hardware processor that is configured to acquire position information of the image sensor in the subject; wherein the arithmetic processing section is further configured to perform, based on the fluorescent drug information, determination concerning whether a current time reaches the diagnosis start time and to perform, based on the position information acquired by the position information acquiring section, determination concerning whether the image sensor reaches a periphery of the target region; and a light source control section comprising at least the first hardware processor that performs control to stop irradiation of excitation light for exciting the desired fluorescent drug, at least from the start time of the administration of the desired fluorescent drug to the diagnosis start time, and to start the irradiation of the excitation light when it is determined that the current time is at or after the diagnosis start time and the image sensor reaches the periphery of the target region.