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Measurement and Analysis of Image Brightness in Fiber-optic Imageguide for Ultrathin Endoscope  

이봉수 (건국대학교 의과대학 의학공학부)
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.23, no.4, 2002 , pp. 263-268 More about this Journal
Abstract
The image quality of imageguide depends on the structure, material, length of microfibers and the phenomena such as cross-talk and leaky ray between adjacent fibers. These Parameters should be considered as important factors in the image transmission qualify of fibers. However it is considered to be very difficult to assess all the parameters in a consistent way Therefore. two image characteristics, image resolution and image brightness are measured and analyzed to determine the image quality of imageguide. But the exact methods to measure two image characteristics of imageguide are not reported. In this study, the image brightness of imageguide for ultrathin endoscope is determined by measuring of the numerical aperture. the packing fraction and the attenuated power ratio of imageguide. Especially it is possible to obtain more exact results from measuring the numerical aperture of whole image guide than those from theoretical calculation of the single microfiber in an image guide. The image brightness of the image guide which has $3.1\mu m$ microfibers is about 37% less than that with $4.1\mu m$ microfibers.
Keywords
Ultrathin endoscope; Fiber-optic imageguide; Image brightness; Image quality;
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