Patent ID: 8320996

Claim:
A medical instrument for detecting a tumor, the instrument comprising: a first stage optic configured to receive light from in-vivo tissue of a subject in a region of interest; a spectral separator configured to filter the received light; an imaging sensor for recording an image of the filtered light; a diagnostic protocol module adapted for tumor detection in in-vivo tissue; a diagnostic processor configured to: instruct the spectral separator to filter the received light in a plurality of spectral bands based on the diagnostic protocol module, instruct the imaging sensor to record a plurality of images of the region of interest based on the diagnostic protocol module, each image of the plurality of images corresponding to a spectral band of the plurality of spectral bands, obtain a hyperspectrally resolved image based on the plurality of images, and obtain a pseudo-color image based on the hyperspectrally resolved image, the pseudo-color image enhancing the visibility of any tumor tissue present in the region of interest; and a projection subsystem configured to project the pseudo-color image onto the region of interest, wherein the projection subsystem comprises an image projector with a field-of-view co-aligned with a field of view of the first stage optic.