A Novel Technique for Low Cost Imaging in Light-Deficient Environments

Name: A Novel Technique for Low Cost Imaging in Light-Deficient Environments
Start: 2019-06-05T12:00:00-07:00
End: 2019-06-05T13:00:00-07:00
Location: No location set

by John Richardson (Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices)

Wednesday 5 Jun 2019, 12:00 → 13:00 US/Pacific

50A-5132

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Abstract:

Considerable pressure is placed on medical device manufacturers to continually improve success rates whilst at the same time, striving to reduce costs. A significant element of expenditure for minimally-invasive abdominal and joint surgery arises from the manufacture and maintenance of conventional, rigid rod-lens endoscopes. These must undergo multiple sterilization cycles and they also require frequent, costly repairs in order to maintain image quality. The versatility of CMOS as an imaging technology has been exploited to create a new type of endoscope which is so inexpensive to produce, that it may be discarded after a single use. To do so with acceptable, high-definition image quality has proven impossible with CCDs or even off-the-shelf CMOS sensors. I will explain how a novel system-level approach, based upon a fully custom image sensor design has made it possible.