A technique of near-infrared (NIR) transillumination imaging was applied to develop an injection assist system. We have developed a simultaneous observation system for a body surface image and a transillumination image of blood vessels. The system consists of a high-intensity and low-leak light source, near-infrared CMOS camera and a small and light one-eye head mounted display. In transillumination imaging, we could visualize the veins in the adult forearm with the thickness of as much as 67 mm. A model phantom of the veins in the forearm was fabricated with the blood-contained tubes buried in pork thigh meat. The blood tube was hardly observable with a naked eye. Using the developed system, we could identify the blood tube in the NIR transillumination image, and could extract the blood successfully with the assist of the NIR image. © 2013 IFMBE.
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Shimizu, K., Tobisawa, N., Nghia, T. T., Namita, T., & Kato, Y. (2013). Application of transillumination imaging to injection assist system. In IFMBE Proceedings (Vol. 40 IFMBE, pp. 13–16). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32183-2_4
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