Patent ID: 8700135
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An optical fiber array probe imaging system integrated with an endoscope, comprising: an endoscope unit; and an optical fiber array probe unit integrated with lenses, wherein the endoscope unit includes a light source, an endoscope probe through which the light source is transmitted to a sample, and a detection unit for detecting light reflected in the endoscope probe, and wherein the optical fiber array probe unit integrated with lenses includes an optical fiber array probe integrated with lenses including an optical fiber lens with a lens surface of a predetermined radius of curvature in which one ends of optical fibers are integrally connected with each other by heating a predetermined region including the one ends of two of the optical fibers using a heating means, as an optical fiber array probe integrated lens on which the light transmitted from the light source is incident and which guides light reflected from the sample, and a detector for selectively detecting the light transmitted from the optical fiber array probe integrated with lenses in a predetermined range of wavelength.