Optical functional mamoscope

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The apparatus of the present inventions overcomes the disadvantages of the apparatus described above.
It is characterized by an increased information volume and determines the patients physiological state with high reliability.
At the same time it provides sufficiently comfortable conditions for the patient during the investigation procedure.
The apparatus or optical mammoscope of this invention is a modification of the known apparatus and includes an illuminator, a mammary gland holder, and a photodetector connected to a computer via an interface board and includes an additional illuminator supplied with an illuminator control means, an optical means for making adjacent images from images of opposite sides of the mammary gland, an optical commutator and an input-output controller.
The optical commutator is placed between the means for making adjacent images and the input to a zoom lens attached to the photodetector means.
The optical commutator and the illuminator control means is connected to the computer via the input-output controller.
The present apparatus is also distinguished by inclusion of an additional holder for the second mammary gland along with similar illuminators, optical means and control means as described above.
The present apparatus is further distinguished by the construction of the illuminators as a panel consisting of discrete optical radiation sources coupled to an optical system that projects images of the sources onto the surface of the transparent plates that form the mammary gland holders.
These transparent plates are formed from closely packed fiber-optic rods set perpendicular to the surface of the plates, thereby collimating the light passing through the plate.
The illuminators may have a common source of optical radiation and a fiber-optic beam splitter employed to distribute the illumination uniformly over the transparent plates that form the mammary gland holder.
The present apparatus is even further distinguished by the inclusion into the illumination system of at least two sources of optical radiation together with corresponding fiber-optic beam-splitting systems, the output from the latter being distributed evenly inside the transparent plates that form the mammary gland holder