Patent ID: 9101331
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An object information acquiring apparatus that receives an acoustic wave generated from an object, on which light is irradiated, and generates property information of an inside of the object, the object information acquiring apparatus comprising: a housing including an aperture into which, when the acoustic wave is received, the object, which is a part of an examinee, is inserted and, when performance evaluation for the object information acquiring apparatus is performed, a calibration device corresponding to a type of the performance evaluation is inserted, the housing being capable of holding the examinee; a holding unit configured to hold the object; a positioning unit configured to specify an attachment position of the calibration device correspondingly to a position specifying member provided in the calibration device inserted into the aperture; and a detecting unit configured to detect the type of the performance evaluation performed using the calibration device inserted into the aperture.