1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to medical detection; in particular, to a non-invasive detecting apparatus and an operating method thereof applied in medical wearable non-invasive diagnosis.
2. Description of the Prior Art
With the development of medical technology, various medical detecting and diagnosis apparatuses with different functions are appeared on the market. The conventional invasive medical detecting apparatus will cause pain and discomfort of the tested one, therefore, the conventional invasive medical detecting apparatus has been replaced by a new generation of non-invasive detecting apparatus.
In general, the non-invasive detecting apparatus has advantages of reducing pain and discomfort of the tested one, rapidly obtaining detection result, avoiding pollution; for example, the widely used ultrasound medical detection. Because the current ultrasound medical detection apparatus uses the ultrasound detector of fixed form to detect the tissue under the detected region, when the surface relief of the detected region is too large, the size of the ultrasound detector of the current ultrasound medical detection apparatus or the detection direction of the ultrasound detector should be changed to obtain better detection effect. However, various ultrasound detectors of different sizes should be prepared at the same time, so that it is complicated and cost-consuming, and only a partial region of the ultrasound detector can perform the detection. It is inconvenient for the testing personnel to perform actual detection.
Therefore, the invention provides a non-invasive detecting apparatus and an operating method thereof to solve the above-mentioned problems occurred in the prior arts.
An embodiment of the invention is a non-invasive detecting apparatus. In this embodiment, the non-invasive detecting apparatus includes an elastic base, a detecting module, and a data processing module. The detecting module is disposed on the elastic base. The detecting module includes at least one detecting unit used to detect a tissue under a detected region of a detected object to obtain a detection information. The data processing module analyzes and processes the detection information to generate a detection result.
In practical applications, the elastic base can be worn on a hand of a user, and a position of the at least one detecting unit can be changed with the variation of a gesture or the moving of a palm or a finger. The at least one detecting unit can be formed by an emitting unit and a receiving unit, and the emitting unit and the receiving unit are integrated into a transceiver or separated from each other.
In addition, the non-invasive detecting apparatus can further include a positioning module. The positioning module detects a position of the at least one detecting unit, and generates a position compensating information to the data processing module according to a position change of the at least one detecting unit or a relative position change of the at least one detecting unit relative to the elastic base. The data processing module adjusts the detection result according to the position compensating information.
In practical applications, the positioning module and the at least one detecting unit of the detecting module are integrated. The detecting module can use a non-invasive detecting technology to perform the detection. The non-invasive detecting technology can be an ultrasound detecting technology, an optical detecting technology, an electrical detecting technology, or a magnetic detecting technology.
Another embodiment of the invention is a non-invasive detecting apparatus operating method. In this embodiment, the non-invasive detecting apparatus includes an elastic base, a detecting module, and a data processing module. The method includes steps of the at least one detecting unit of the detecting module performing a detection on a tissue under a detected region of a detected object to obtain a detection information; the data processing module analyzing and processing the detection information to generate a detection result.
In practical applications, the method can further include steps of: detecting a position of the at least one detecting unit; generating a position compensating information to the data processing module according to a position change of the at least one detecting unit or a relative position change of the at least one detecting unit relative to the elastic base; adjusting the detection result according to the position compensating information.
Compared to the prior art, the non-invasive detecting apparatus and the operating method thereof disclosed in this invention can avoid the disadvantages of the conventional non-invasive detecting apparatus that various ultrasound detectors of different sizes should be prepared and only a partial region of the ultrasound detector can detect. Even the surface relief of the detected region is too large, since the non-invasive detecting apparatus of the invention can be worn on the hands of the operator, it can be easily operated and smoothly detect without changing detector. It can be also applied in large-area and multi-angles synchronous detection and different non-invasive detecting technologies.
In addition, because the detecting module in the non-invasive detecting apparatus of the invention is integrated with the elastic base, the operator can change the positions of the detecting units (e.g., bending) or the relative positions of the detecting units relative to the elastic base (e.g., shifting) to change the range covered by its detected area. Therefore, compared to the fixed design of detecting units in the detector of the prior art, the detecting module in the non-invasive detecting apparatus of the invention has advantages of high efficiency and high using flexibility.
The advantage and spirit of the invention may be understood by the following detailed descriptions together with the appended drawings.
The invention discloses a non-invasive detecting apparatus and an operating method thereof. In practical applications, the non-invasive detecting apparatus of the invention can be applied in medical wearable non-invasive diagnosis. Because the non-invasive detecting apparatus of the invention can be worn on the hands of the operator, it can be easily operated and smoothly detect the detected region with high surface relief without changing detector.
A first embodiment of the invention is a non-invasive detecting apparatus. Please refer to
In practical applications, the non-invasive detecting apparatus 1 can be designed as a form which is wearable on the hands (e.g., the glove), but not limited to this. Please refer to
It should be noticed that the elastic base 10 of the non-invasive detecting apparatus 1 has the extending flexibility; therefore, the user can do detecting motions of bending finger (
In this embodiment, for convenient, the non-invasive detecting apparatus 1 can store at least one default detecting motion and a position compensating information corresponding to the at least one default detecting motion in advance. In practical operation, after the non-invasive detecting apparatus 1 starts a default detection mode, the hand wearing the non-invasive detecting apparatus 1 only needs to do a default detecting motion to the surface of the detected region according to the operation guidebook, the data processing module 14 of the non-invasive detecting apparatus 1 can receive the detection results and the position compensating information corresponding to the default detecting motion transmitted from the detecting units 120 of the detecting module 12. Then, the data processing module 14 will adjust the detection result according to the position compensating information, so that the detection result will be not distorted due to the position changes of the detecting units 120 of the detecting module 12 or the relative position changes of the detecting units 120 relative to the elastic base 10. For example, the default detecting motion can be the finger F bending detecting motion mode shown in
In fact, after the at least one detecting unit 120 of the detecting module 12 obtains the detection information related to the tissue under the surface of the detected region, the at least one detecting unit 120 of the detecting module 12 can transmit the detection information to the data processing module 14 in a wire way or a wireless way.
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In this embodiment, the at least one detecting unit 120 of the detecting module 12 uses a non-invasive detecting technology to perform the detection. In fact, the non-invasive detecting technology can be an ultrasound detecting technology, an optical detecting technology, an electrical detecting technology, or a magnetic detecting technology, it has no specific limitations. For example, except the ultrasound detecting technology, the at least one detecting unit 120 of the detecting module 12 can also use the optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology to perform deep detection on the tissue under the detected region. Its vertical detecting depth is about 2-3 mm, and the wavelength of the light it uses can be 1300 nm or 849 nm, but not limited to this.
A second embodiment of the invention can be also a non-invasive detecting apparatus. Please refer to
It should be noticed that the difference between the non-invasive detecting apparatus 3 of this embodiment and the non-invasive detecting apparatus 1 of the above-mentioned first embodiment is that the non-invasive detecting apparatus 3 further includes the positioning module 36. The positioning module 36 is used for detecting a position of the at least one detecting unit 320, and generating a position compensating information to the data processing module 34 according to a position change of the at least one detecting unit 320 (e.g., the detecting unit is bent) or a relative position change of the at least one detecting unit 320 relative to the elastic base 30 (e.g., the detecting unit is shifted). For example, the positioning module 36 can position to obtain the distances d1˜d4 among the detecting units 320 to generate the position compensating information. Then, the data processing module 34 will adjust the detection result according to the position compensating information, so that the detection result obtained by the non-invasive detecting apparatus 3 will be not distorted due to the position changes of the detecting units 320 of the detecting module 32 or the relative position changes of the detecting units 320 relative to the elastic base 30.
In practical applications, the positioning module 36 and the at least one detecting unit 320 of the detecting module 32 can be integrated. Please refer to
It should be noticed that the type of integrating the positioning module 36 and the detecting module 32 is only an embodiment, the positioning module 36 and the detecting module 32 can also have other different integration types, not limited to this case.
In practical applications, before the non-invasive detecting apparatus 3 starts to use the at least one detecting unit 320 of the detecting module 32 to detect, the non-invasive detecting apparatus 3 will start the positioning module 36 at first, so that when the at least one detecting unit 320 of the detecting module 32 detects, the positioning module 36 will also detect the position of the at least one detecting unit 320. Once the positioning module 36 detects the position change of the at least one detecting unit 320 (e.g., the detecting unit 320 is bent) or a relative position change of the at least one detecting unit 320 relative to the elastic base 30 (e.g., the detecting unit 320 is shifted), the positioning module 36 will generate corresponding position compensating information to the data processing module 34. Then, the data processing module 34 will adjust the detection result according to the position compensating information. After the at least one detecting unit 320 of the detecting module 32 finishes the detection, the non-invasive detecting apparatus 3 will shut down the positioning module 36. In practical applications, the non-invasive detecting apparatus 3 can start the positioning module 36 and the default detection mode at the same time, or only start any one of the positioning module 36 and the default detection mode without any specific limitations.
A third embodiment of the invention is a non-invasive detecting apparatus operating method. In this embodiment, the non-invasive detecting apparatus includes an elastic base, a detecting module, and a data processing module. The detecting module includes at least one detecting unit. The number of the detecting unit can be determined based on practical needs without any specific limitations. The detecting module is disposed on the elastic base. The data is transmitted between the detecting module and the data processing module through a wire way or a wireless way. In this embodiment, for convenient, the elastic base can be worn on the hand of the operator, so that the position of the at least one detecting unit can be changed with the variation of a gesture or the moving of a palm or a finger. At this time, the size of the detected region that the at least one detecting unit detects the detected object will also changed with the variation of the position of the at least one detecting unit. In addition, the non-invasive detecting apparatus can store at least one default detecting motion and a position compensating information corresponding to the at least one default detecting motion in advance.
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In this embodiment, the detecting units of the detecting module use a non-invasive detecting technology to perform the detection. In fact, the non-invasive detecting technology can be an ultrasound detecting technology, an optical detecting technology, an electrical detecting technology, or a magnetic detecting technology, it has no specific limitations. For example, except the ultrasound detecting technology, the detecting unit can also use the optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology to perform deep detection on the tissue under the detected region. Its vertical detecting depth is about 2-3 mm, and the wavelength of the light it uses can be 1300 nm or 849 nm, but not limited to this.
A fourth embodiment of the invention is a non-invasive detecting apparatus operating method. In this embodiment, the non-invasive detecting apparatus includes an elastic base, a detecting module, a data processing module, and a positioning module. The detecting module includes at least one detecting unit. The detecting module is disposed on the elastic base. The positioning module is coupled to the data processing module. The data is transmitted between the detecting module and the data processing module through a wire way or a wireless way.
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Compared to the prior art, the non-invasive detecting apparatus and the operating method thereof disclosed in this invention can avoid the disadvantages of the conventional non-invasive detecting apparatus that various ultrasound detectors of different sizes should be prepared and only a partial region of the ultrasound detector can detect. Even the surface relief of the detected region is too large, since the non-invasive detecting apparatus of the invention can be worn on the hands of the operator, it can be easily operated and smoothly detect without changing detector. It can be also applied in large-area and multi-angles synchronous detection and different non-invasive detecting technologies.
In addition, because the detecting module in the non-invasive detecting apparatus of the invention is integrated with the elastic base, the operator can change the positions of the detecting units (e.g., bending) or the relative positions of the detecting units relative to the elastic base (e.g., shifting) to change the range covered by its detected area. Therefore, compared to the fixed design of detecting units in the detector of the prior art, the detecting module in the non-invasive detecting apparatus of the invention has advantages of high efficiency and high using flexibility.
With the example and explanations above, the features and spirits of the invention will be hopefully well described. Those skilled in the art will readily observe that numerous modifications and alterations of the device may be made while retaining the teaching of the invention. Accordingly, the above disclosure should be construed as limited only by the metes and bounds of the appended claims.
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100125575 | Jul 2011 | TW | national |