Endoscopes and USB Camera - Perfect Match

Otoscopes are great inspections devices
for ear canal, tympanic membrane and for fitting hearing aids. All otoscopes feature advanced optics with clear images of inspection area and provide accessories such as specula adapters to use with disposable Welch Allyn tips, air balls to blow on the tympanic membrane and ear drum and portable or fixed light sources to illuminate the ear. Sinuscopes are used for inspection of sinus.

 


The ImagePRO USB Camera is a professional high resolution video device. This is a perfect match for any endoscope.

This camera was specially designed to meet the requirements of RVI and work perfectly with any optical endoscopes. The camera is completely portable and ready-to-use with only one USB cable to connect it to a computer or tablet.

What is Exview HAD Sony CCD Sensor?

This is a CCD Camera sensor which improves light efficiency by including near infrared light region as a basic structure of HAD (Hole-Accumulation Diode) sensor. Recently Sony developed new structure "EXview HAD CCD", which can detect with great sensitivity near infrared light region. Light in the near infrared light region which has long wavelengths is converted into photo electricity deep in the semiconductor's silicon, so in conventional CCD structure, sensors were incapable of efficiently gathering the charge which has undergone photoelectric conversion.

This sensor is used in a professional camera for endoscopes. This camera features many manual controls that cam adjust the quality of image and greatly improbe under various conditions. Available coupler will help you to connect this camera to all types of endoscopes. PAL or NTSC versions are available. Following characteristics of the CCD Camera sensor are - 

» Minimum Illumination: 0.4 Lux, 

» White Balance:  MODE: ATW / AWC (Zero color rolling)

» Video Output: 1.0V p-p composite video at 75 ohm

» Operation Temperature: -20℃ TO 50℃

Useful Accessories for Light Source

The new SPARK Light Source has high intensity LED lights, which produces over 50,000 Lux  of illumination and an adjustable intensity control lever to vary the illumination for different inspection areas or reflective surfaces. These portable light sources work with flexible and rigid endoscopes, borescopes and some flexible fiberscopes. One of good features is availability of various accessories that make these light sources very convenient to work.

Car charger is a good addition to existing power adapter and can easily charge the battery of your  light source from the lighter of your car while you are driving from one place of examination to a hospital or to another site. 

This light source can be supplied with a special Olympus adapter which helps to connect this light source to nearly all models of popular Olympus endoscopes. 

Metal halide light source for veterinary practice

Good luminosity is very important for efficient and correct veterinary practice. Much depends on how well you see every detail of observation. The MS-24 metal halide light source is one of the best solutions to complete routine inspections using rigid borescopes and/or fiberscopes.

Light source MS-24 include portability and light weight with great output intensity. 

Due to the short metal halide arc lamp, the light acceptance of small fiber bundles is increased. Each bulb also has an average lifetime of not less than 500 hours.

You can manually adjust intensity of light which is very convenient. You can use this light source with your equipment of any make.

Gastroscope for Small Animals

Gastro-Intestinal Endoscope is specially designed for diagnostic procedures  and examination in the stomach and colon of cats, dogs and horses. This small animal gastroscope comes with a 7.9 mm diameter, 4-way tip articulation, waterproof coated insertion tube. The image bundle is composed of 20, 000 fiber optic pixels, which are encased in a waterproof coated insertion tube. The 4-way articulation includes three channels: for air or water, suction and flexible forceps. 
The set includes a small gastroscope, 150W halogen light source with air pump and water bottle, 2 pairs of forceps, 2 cleaning brushes, a Leak Tester, jaw spacers, channel cleaning device and a carrying case. These units can also be sealed to soak them in a sterilizing solution for cleaning.

USB Video Camera for Vets

The Image PRO USB camera is a professional high resolution device - perfect match for any Endoscope, Borescope or Fiberscope. 

The ImagePRO USB camera is completely portable and ready-to-use with only one USB cable to be  connected  it a computer.
The light weight aluminum body houses the ¼” COLOR CCD image sensor, which provides 720 x 480 pixels of resolution. These units feature low noise disruption of the image, even with no light illuminating the inspection area. You can view the live image on your computer or laptop without recording, or capture images or video directly to your hard drive. ll drivers and software is included.

There is also an optional Foot Control Pedal, which is the easiest way to turn your laptop or desktop into a capture device. It allows you to capture images, and video directly to your computer hard drive hands free, just by tapping one of three pedals with your foot. 

TV Camera in Veterinary Practice

Why are TV cameras used in veterinary? 

Vets answer today: "It is very convenient!" You can attach the camera with a special coupler to any endoscopes with a standard eyepiece. Just after a short period of time when the camera is connected  you will receive magnified area of the examination on your screen. It produces great outcomes and makes operation much easier. 

Please check out the new TV Video borescope camera with CCD video camera chip, which provides 760x490 resolution and over 470 TV lines and analog output RCA to connect the camera unit to your TV monitor or USB capture box. Power is provided by a 12 volt power adapter, and all of these video cameras feature a 28mm focus universal eyepiece coupler to connect to all sorts of rigid endoscopes,  fiberscopes. 

Video Gastroscope for Veterinary Practice

In our modern world endoscopes are disseminated world-wide. Vets are using scopes in lots of different procedures every day.  
The Gastroscope is useful for all diagnostic procedures and post operative examinations in stomach and colon of small domestic animals. The high resolution CCD image sensor in the tip of the insertion probe produces a live color image. Powerful halogen light source makes diagnostics more accurate. The Video Gastroscopes feature a waterproof insertion probe with 4-way tip articulation, an instrument channel for flexible forceps. The device is connected directly to PAL monitors to provide image capture. High quality picture is provided by adjustable white balance and sharp focus. For a portable option, a USB capture box is included to connect to the videoscope directly to a computer/laptop,allowing you to view the live image and capture images and video directly to your drive.
The set includes 200W Halogen Light Source, Water bottle and Air Pump, Biopsy forces, cleaning brushes, jaw spacers, leak tester, water resistant insertion Probe and a convenient carrying case. 

New Generation of Illuminators

Illuminator is a extremely bright LED light source. During any kind of procedures or operation illumination is very important. 
The more illumination - the easier control of tools and organs. Light is generated and transmitted to the endoscope by a special light cable or light guide that connects the illuminator and borescope. Such illuminators can be Halogen, Xenon, Metal Halide or LED. They all have their own pros and cons. Halogen, metal halide and xenon light sources have a high intensity, but the life span of their bulbs is generally very limited, some hundreds of hours. Spare bulbs are costly.

Today LED light sources are very popular. Due to achievements of LED technology, LED-based illuminator get more light intensity and now it equals or exceeds halogen or xenon illuminators.

A new LED illuminator represents the next generation of powerful light sources for the widest application. Now you can stop using fragile and sensitive halogen, xenon, or metal halide light sources. This unit is a very cost-effective solution with extremely long life expectancy (>60 000Hrs, longer than a 250W halogen, or 100W Xenon bulb), while at the same time the light output, at 650K Lux, easily replaces even the 250W halogen light sources.
Light intensity is controlled via a dimmer switch with an LCD display, which provides you with a quantified number for the illumination intensity.

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Xtreme LED light source for all borescopes

Portable Spark LED Light Sources are a convenient, easy to use, substitute for bulky halogen or metal halide light sources. These Light Sources feature a high intensity 3W LED, which produces well over 50,000 Lux of illumination, and an adjustable intensity control lever, to vary the illumination for different inspection areas, or areas with reflective surfaces.

These portable Xtreme LED work with flexible and rigid endoscopes/ borescopes, and some flexible fiberscopes too. They produce a focused bright white light, not an unfocused yellow light like some halogen light sources. Power is provided by a rechargeable lithium ion battery, and at full power these units will run continuously for 45 minutes. Charging take 2 hours, but the LED should be good for over 1,000,000 hours of lamp life per bulb.

Additional features include an adapter nut to connect to the endoscopes/borescopes, and special adapters for some fiberscopes. The Xtreme LED is also rated IPX7 for protection against water, and cleaning solutions, allowing you to full submerge these light sources into water, or disinfecting solutions to clean them, or perform inspections. This also means these light sources are available for both industrial and medical use.

Three-dimensional, miniature endoscope opens new diagnostic possibilities

BOSTON - October 18, 2006 - Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have developed a new type of miniature endoscope that produces three-dimensional, high-definition images, which may greatly expand the application of minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. In the October 19 issue of Nature, the team from the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at MGH describes their prototype device and a demonstration of its use in a mouse model.

"This new ultraminiature endoscope is the first to allow three-dimensional imaging of areas inside the body, " says Guillermo Tearney, MD, PhD, of the MGH Wellman Center, the report's senior author. "Its ability to go places that other imaging tools cannot reach opens new possibilities for medical diagnosis and eventually treatment."

Standard miniature endoscopic devices - which give physicians access to hard-to-reach internal organs and structures - utilize bundles of optical fibers to supply light to and transmit images from the areas of interest. Larger endoscopes that use image sensors to produce high-quality, two-dimensional images can be a centimeter or more in diameter. Existing miniature endoscopes using smaller fiber bundles may be more flexible but have difficulty producing high-quality images.

The new device developed at MGH-Wellman uses a technology called spectrally encoded endoscopy (SEE). Multicolored light from a single optical fiber - introduced through a probe about the size of a human hair - is broken into its component colors and projected onto tissue, with each color illuminating a different part of the tissue surface. The light reflected back is recorded, and the intensity of the various colors decoded by a spectrometer, which analyzes the wavelengths of light. Another device called an interferometer, which calculates structural information based on the interaction between two waves of light, provides the data required to create three-dimensional images.

Worm inspires 'comfortable' test for endoscopy

Scientists are developing a new way of carrying out internal examinations on patients - based on a wriggling worm.
In an endoscopy, a long flexible tube is fed into the body. It can be very uncomfortable.
But a team from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, found the ragworm, which lives in seashores, could offer a model for a more comfortable test.

They say their device would be able to "pull" itself along, rather than having to be forced into the body.
The team have developed a prototype device, named the Bioloch 1st, which imitates the undulating motion of the ragworm, also known as the paddleworm.
" Ultimately our idea is to turn the current ordeal of the colonic endoscopy procedure into something akin to a pleasurable experience! "
Professor Julian Vincent, University of Bath
The worm, which is often used as fishing bait, moves in wet environments containing large amounts of solid and semi-solid material - similar to that often found inside the body.
The prototype consists of a simple worm with a flexible central spine and paddles sticking out either side along the worm's body. The team are now working on a more advanced version of the device in which the paddles themselves can also move as well as the central spine. Eventually, the device will be motorized.
The team are liaising with a biologist to work out the exact mechanisms for how the ragworm moves.
Paolo Dario, who led the research, said: "The basic concept is to develop a replacement for the current colonic endoscope, which is quite large and stiff, and has to be pushed inside a patient.
"If you can pull a device rather than push it, you can reduce the bending forces and so lessen the chance of damage to a patient's internal organs.
"We looked to nature for a model and chose the paddleworm because it is capable of 'swimming' with ease through relatively soft, unstructured environments."
He said the prototype was quite slow, taking 30 minutes to reach the end of the colon instead of the 10 minutes the conventional type takes.
But he said making the paddles move as well as the central spine of the device should help speed up the 'worm' endoscopy technique.
Versatile
Professor Julian Vincent of the University of Bath, who also worked on the research, said the rag worms have a very different way of moving compared to earthworms.
He said: "The advantage from our point of view is that the paddle worm has a much greater variety of styles of moving, since it can remain straight and just move the paddles, wriggle and keep the paddles still, or wriggle and move the paddles as well. "This gives more versatility in speed and general control. The paddle worm can also build burrows very rapidly.
"So the chances are that a robotic motor based on this design will be more versatile and faster than most others." "Ultimately our idea is to turn the current ordeal of the colonic endoscopy procedure into something akin to a pleasurable experience!

Using video-otoscopy to better manage otitis externa/media in small animal practice

Chronic or recurrent otitis is a common and frustrating disease. A comprehensive approach to identifying and managing all predisposing factors, primary causes, and perpetuating features in each case is the key to successful therapy. In all patients presenting with clinical signs of ear disease, obtain a complete history and perform physical and otoscopic examinations and a cytologic evaluation. Additional testing may include culture and sensitivity, imaging of the tympanic bullae, allergy testing, an elimination diet trial, diagnostics for specific primary diseases (e.g. hypothyroidism), or otoscopy with the patient anesthetized. Further otoscopic evaluation under anesthesia is indicated in patients with suspected foreign bodies, severe acute otitis, purulent otitis, vestibular signs, or recurrent or chronic otitis.

In patients with signs of otitis, video-otoscopy provides several important diagnostic and therapeutic advantages over traditional hand-held diagnostic and operating-head otoscopes. Moreover, video-otoscopy can aid in record keeping and client education.

Improved visualization

Video-otoscopy offers superior optics and magnification to provide greater detail for evaluating the condition of the external canal and tympanic membrane. Even if the membrane was apparently intact on previous evaluation, small perforations and areas of necrosis, sclerosis, or opacification may prompt you to suspect concurrent otitis media. Otitis media was present in 82% of the ears of dogs with continuous or recurrent otitis externa of greater than six months' duration. And the tympanic membrane appeared intact in 27 of 38 ears evaluated under anesthesia with a hand-held otoscope. With otitis externa, the leading cause of treatment failure is unrecognized concurrent otitis media.

Enhanced debris removal

The video-otoscope's configuration of lens, light, and working channel allows you to introduce instruments into the ear without shadowing or blocking the visual field, a common problem with operating-head otoscopes. Forceps, curettes, and catheters less than 5 F in diameter can be used to facilitate debris removal and sample collection. For irrigation during examination, sterile saline solution is safe and cost effective, and it permits continued visualization while the probe is immersed. Such visualization is not possible with operating-head otoscopes, because the light from the ear cone's base reflects off the fluid-air interface when the canal is filled with solution. Constant visualization permits you to target debris, enhancing the accuracy and effectiveness of cleaning while minimizing the risk of iatrogenic injury to fragile structures within the tympanic cavity.

Increased accuracy

In the case of otitis media with an apparently intact membrane, the video-otoscope can be used to more accurately direct diagnostic myringotomy and sample collection from the middle ear cavity for cytologic evaluation and culture and sensitivity. Such sample collection is useful because in as many as 89.5% of cases, the species or antibiotic sensitivity of bacteria obtained from the middle ear differs from that obtained from the external canal.,

When performing a myringotomy, be careful to aim for the caudoventral region of the pars tensa, avoiding the germinal epithelium in the area where the malleus attaches. With a video-otoscope, practitioners can perform this technique with more ease and confidence, because lighting and visualization are better.

Summary

The video-otoscope facilitates diagnostic and therapeutic procedures: It improves direct visualization, so you can better assess the external ear's condition and the tympanum's patency. The video-otoscope also allows for more precise sample collection for cytology and culture, biopsy, and myringotomy, and it enhances flushing and debris removal. Photographs and video recordings, other capabilities of video-otoscopes, provide a permanent visual record of the condition of a patient's external canal and tympanum. And a photograph can convey a patient's condition better than a verbal description when you re-evaluate a case, advise a client, or consult a colleague.

http://www.karlstorzvet.com/article_video.html

Endoscopy in veterinary

Endoscopy is performed with either a rigid or flexible endoscope. Flexible endoscopes consist of a long, flexible tube with a bending tip at the end that enters the body, an eyepiece, and a control section. The tip of the endoscope is manipulated using a control knob in the hand piece. In addition to the fiber bundles which provide the light source, two channels are present within the endoscope. One channel permits various endoscopic tools to be passed and fluids to be suctioned or samples taken. The other allows air or water to be passed into the studied place or wash away mucus from the viewing port. Special video cameras can be attached to the endoscopes which allow viewing on a television screen. Rigid endoscope cannot be used in some areas, such as the stomach because it does not have the bending tip, so it cannot be flexed to allow examination of all parts of the stomach.

Endoscopy can be used in different areas. Flexible endoscopy - Bronchoscopy: an exam of the lower airways; Colonoscopy: an exam of the transverse colon, ascending colon, cecum, large bowel, and rectum; Endoscopy: an exam of the stomach, and upper intestines. Rigid endoscopy - Arthroscopy: an exam of soft tissue structures and joint cartilage. Decreased damage to the joint and shortened recovery times are two advantages of arthroscopy over arthrotomy (surgical exam of the joint); Cystoscopy: an examination of the vagina, urethral opening, urethra, bladder, and ureteral openings; Laparoscopy: an exam of the abdominal cavity performed through a small incision in the wall of the abdomen or through the navel; Proctoscopy: an exam of the large bowel and rectum; Rhinoscopy: an exam of the nasal cavity and nasopharynx (junction between the nasal area and the back of the throat).

Endoscope

Here is a list of links to a source of affordable medical endoscopes:

Endoscope
Otoscope
Video Otoscope
Xenon Light Source

Industrial Borescope and Fiberscopes:

Borescope
Fiberscope
Fiber optic borescope
Video Camera for borescope

Veterinary Endoscopes:

Veterinary Endoscope