Patent ID: 7570984

Claim:
A diagnostic imaging apparatus comprising: a main body freely held between one's fingers; a forward portion of said main body comprising a head portion; a luminous means for irradiating at least one of lights selected from exciting light, infrared light and ultraviolet light; a means for imaging provided at said forward portion of said main body, comprising a solid a solid-state image sensing device and means for forming an optical image of a diagnostic object on said solid-state image sensing device; wherein said imaging means receives a reflection light from said diagnostic object and/or a fluorescence of said diagnostic object to output a predetermined diagnostic image information when light is irradiated from said luminous means to said diagnostic object; a means for image storing provided in said main body; a control means for recording and storing the predetermined diagnostic image information formed by said means for imaging, as a static image; and automatic photography control means for executing a predetermined time sequence by manual operation of a photography switch, provided with said image storing means, to sequentially store and keep in a memory the predetermined diagnostic image information formed by said imaging means each time irradiation light with a different wavelength is selectively irradiated.