591 results about "Near infrared absorption" patented technology

Electrochromic compounds capable of reversibly attenuating the transmittance of the near infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum are provided. These compounds exhibit an energy difference between the singly occupied molecular orbital (SOMO) energy and the highest doubly occupied molecular orbital (HDOMO) energy (ESOMO-EHDOMO) of less than about 3.6 eV. In addition, these compounds have a transition moment of the configuration made up of the HDOMO and SOMO that is "long axis polarized".

A method and an apparatus for measuring a physiological parameter, functioning based on obtaining a first signal derived from electromagnetic energy transmitted through a tissue portion at a first wavelength, the first signal including a signal portion corresponding with motion-related events and a signal portion corresponding with arterial pulsation events, where at the first wavelength water is a dominant absorber of electromagnetic energy in the tissue portion; obtaining a second signal derived from electromagnetic energy transmitted through a tissue portion at a second wavelength, the second signal including a signal portion corresponding with motion-related events and a signal portion corresponding with arterial pulsation events, where at the second wavelength hemoglobin is a dominant absorber of electromagnetic energy in the tissue portion; and combining the first signal and the second signal to generate a combined plethysmograph signal, such that the combined signal has a signal portion corresponding with motion-related events that is smaller than that present in the first signal or the second signal.

In a film or panel having excellent near-infrared absorbability and excellent near-infrared shieldability, and having a high degree of visible ray transmittance and good color tone, in order to produce the near-infrared-absorbing film or panel having good color tone while the near-infrared-absorbing dye disposed therein is kept stable, the dye and the binder resin for the dye are specifically selected, and the production method is also specifically selected. In addition, for the purpose of producing the film or panel while the dye disposed therein is kept stable and for the purpose of making the film or panel have additional functions such as electromagnetic radiation absorbability, the film or panel is made to have a multi-layered structure.

The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for identifying the risk of a clinical condition in a human or animal by correlating Near Infrared (NIR) absorbance spectral data with one or several parameters including a concentration of one or more substances in the skin, a concentration of one or more substances in skin plus subdermal tissue, a score derived from one or more clinical tests like a stress test on a treadmill, coronary angiography, or intravascular coronary ultrasound. The method determines the concentration of a compound in the skin of a human or animal and comprises the steps of placing a part of the skin against a receptor, directing electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from the near-infrared spectrum onto the skin, measuring a quantity of EMR reflected by, or transmitted through, the skin with a detector; and performing a quantitative mathematical analysis of the quantity of EMR to determine the concentration of the compound, for example free and esterfied cholesterol. An example of a clinical condition is cardiovascular disease.

Disclosed is an optical member in the form of a film or a thin plate. The optical member contains near infrared absorbing particles comprising crystallites of an oxide containing at least Cu and P and having a number average aggregated particle size of at least 20 nm and at most 200 nm. Further, a near infrared cut filter, a solid-state imaging element, a lens for an imaging device and an imaging/display device are disclosed. They comprise a near infrared absorbing layer containing near infrared absorbing particles comprising crystallites of an oxide containing at least Cu and P and having a number average aggregated particle size of at least 20 nm and at most 200 nm.

A curable composition containing a lake dye having an absorption maximum in the wavelength region of from 700 nm to 1100 nm and a thermosetting compound and/or a photo-setting compound; a solid imaging device installing therein a filter prepared using the curable composition; and a lake dye represented by the following formula (V):

wherein L¹ represents a methine chain composed of odd number(s) of methine group(s); A¹ and A² are each independently represents an alkyl group having a sulfo group; Y represents a cation necessary to balance a charge and selected from the group consisting of alkali earth metal ions (Mg²⁺, Ca²⁺, Ba²⁺, Sr²⁺), transition metal ions (Ag⁺, Fe⁺, Co²⁺, Ni²⁺, Cu²⁺, Zn²⁺) and (Al³⁺).

The near-infrared ray absorption film of the present invention is a near-infrared ray absorption film in which a near-infrared ray absorption layer comprising a composition containing a near-infrared ray absorbing dye having maximum absorption at a wavelength of 800 to 1200 nm, and a resin is provided on a transparent substrate film, and is characterized that a surfactant having HLB of 2 to 12 is contained in the composition at 0.01 to 2.0% by mass. There can be provided a near-infrared ray absorption film excellent in coated film appearance which has the wide absorbing ability in the near-infrared ray absorbing region, has a high light transmittance in the visible light region, has little change in optical properties with time, and can respond to a higher luminance of a display, and higher-definition and higher image quality by Hi-Vision broadcasting in recent years.

Provided is a composition comprising a nonmicellar twisted nematic liquid crystal having cholesteric near infrared-reflecting properties and at least one near infrared absorptive material. This composition reduces the transmission of near infrared radiation. The composition can be used as a layer, optionally in conjunction with polymeric films, polymeric sheets, rigid sheets, and the like, to form multilayer laminates. In some embodiments these multilayer laminates are useful as solar control windows or window films to reduce energy consumption necessary to cool the interior of a structure such as an automobile or building.

Methods and systems for detecting venous pulsation are provided. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present technique, there is provided a method for detecting venous pulsation, including acquiring a first signal corresponding to absorption at a first near-infrared wavelength, acquiring a second signal corresponding to absorption at a second near-infrared wavelength, deriving an offset metric from the first and second signals, and detecting the presence of venous pulsation based on the offset metric. The method further includes correcting calculations of physiological parameters such as, for example, blood oxygen saturation, when venous pulsation is detected.

The invention discloses a three-frequency band near-infrared absorber based on a semiconductor super-surface structure, and belongs to the field of metamaterials. The three-frequency band near-infrared absorber sequentially consists of a substrate, a metal film layer and a semiconductor super-surface structure layer from bottom to top, wherein the semiconductor super-surface structure layer consists of a semiconductor particle array and a semiconductor film layer. The three-frequency band near-infrared absorber based on the semiconductor super-surface structure has the advantages that by reasonably designing the geometric size and lattice cycle of the semiconductor super-surface structure layer, the electromagnetic wave which is transmitted into the structure surface is completely absorbed; the structure is simple, the near-infrared band absorbing is realized, and three absorbing peaks are provided; the electromagnetic wave absorbing power is made of the semiconductor material, so that the limitation of only production of single resonance absorbing peak by the single size of the traditional metal resonance unit is overcome, and the absorber is applied into the fields of photoelectrical detection, photoelectrical conversion, production and collection of photo-induced electrons and thermal electrons, absorbing of electromagnetic energy, and the like.

Optical changes of tissue during wound healing measured by Near Infrared and Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy are shown to correlate with histologic changes. Near Infrared absorption coefficient correlated with blood vessel in-growth over time, while Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy (DRS) data correlated with collagen concentration. Changes of optical properties of wound tissue at greater depths are also quantified by Diffuse Photon Density Wave (DPDW) methodology at near infrared wavelengths. The diffusion equation for semi-infinite media is used to calculate the absorption and scattering coefficients based on measurements of phase and amplitude with a frequency domain or time domain device. An increase in the absorption and scattering coefficients and a decrease in blood saturation of the wounds compared to the non wounded sites was observed. The changes correlated with the healing stage of the wound. The methodologies used to collect information regarding the healing state of a wound may be used to clinically assess the efficacy of wound healing agents in a patient (e.g., a diabetic) and as a non-invasive method

The present invention provides an optical filter possessing excellent near infrared shielding properties. The optical filter has a laminate structure comprising at least a transparent substrate and a near infrared absorptive layer, which is formed of an acrylic resin containing a near infrared absorptive colorant capable of absorbing a near infrared radiation, stacked on top of each other. The acrylic resin has a birefringence value of 0 (zero) to 15 nm.

The invention relates to a heptamethine indocyanine dye containing N-fatty esters or N-fatty amide side chains, a synthetic method thereof and applications thereof in tumor targeting imaging and treatment. The heptamethine indocyanine dye which possesses or individually possesses near infrared absorption, fluorography and antineoplastic activity allows present research and development ideas and treatment levels of tumor targeting treatment medicaments to be greatly improved, and has great significances to aspects of early discovery, control and the like of various tumors.

An imaging method includes the steps of (a) determining whether an object on which an image is to be formed is an information display medium on which a code is formed with an imaging material formed of a near infrared absorbing pigment, and (b) forming the image on the object by a printer engine with an imaging material formed of a pigment absorbing no or little light in a near infrared spectral region if the step (a) determines that the object is the information display medium.

Described herein are novel thermally reactive near-infrared absorbing acetal copolymers that undergo chemical and physical changes upon exposure to near-infrared radiation. Also described are the methods of preparation of the novel acetal copolymers starting either with vinyl-alcohol polymers or with acetal copolymers. Also described are the methods of use of the new near-infrared absorbing acetal copolymers in coatings used in lithographic offset printing plates that can be directly imaged with near-infrared laser imaging devices in computer-to-plate and digital offset printing technologies. The novel acetal copolymers are also useful in photoresist applications, rapid prototyping of printed circuit boards and chemical sensor development.

Provided are a near-infrared-absorbing glass having high transmittance in a visible light region, an excellent near infrared absorption property, excellent climate resistance, etc., and is suitable for use as/in a near-infrared-absorbing element such as a near-infrared-absorbing filter, and a near-infrared-absorbing element to which the above near-infrared-absorbing glass is applied, and the near-infrared-absorbing glass contains, by cationic %, 25 to 45% of P<5+>, 1 to 10% of Al<3+>, 15 to 30% of Li<+>, 0.1 to 10% of Mg<2+>, 0.1 to 20% of Ca<2+>, 0.1 to 20% of Sr<2+>, 0.1 to 20 Ba<2+> and 1 to 8% of Cu<2+> and contains, as anionic components, 25 to 50 anionic % of F<-> and O<2->.

There is devised a novel acryl resin in which an unsaturated group introduced in an alkali soluble resin is placed at a longer distance from the resin skeleton of the alkali soluble resin, the mobility of the unsaturated group is promoted and the number of the unsaturated double bonds is increased; therefore it allows crosslinking reaction to occur easily and a functional resin portion which imparts a specific function, in particular, function of suppressing polymerization inhibition due to oxygen by introduction of an active methylene group is provided at a resin portion existing between the acryl resin skeleton and the unsaturated double bond, and a photosensitive resin composition containing thereof is to be provided. A photosensitive resin composition comprising an alkali soluble resin, an ethylenically unsaturated compound, a near infrared absorbing dye, a compound containing a halomethyl group and a compound containing an organoboron anion, wherein the alkali soluble resin comprises an acryl resin having one or more of pendant groups in which both terminals of a diol compound have been blocked with isophorone diisocyanates and then (meth)acryloyl has been added, and, an image forming material comprising a substrate, and a photosensitive layer formed by the photosensitive resin composition on the substrate, as well as an image forming method.

The present invention relates to a method of noninvasively and quantitatively evaluating a degree of a hair damage, specifically the degree of a hair damage caused by a permanent treatment and/or the degree of a damage caused by an oxidation treatment. The degree of a damage of a hair, whose degree of a damage is unknown, is evaluated on the basis of a correlation between the degree of a hair damage and a result of multivariate analysis near infrared absorption spectrum of the hair. The correlation can be obtained based on a result of multivariate analysis of near infrared absorption spectra of two or more kinds of hairs, whose degree of a damage is known. Furthermore, a hysteresis of treatment applied to the hair or the likelihood to be easily damaged by a treatment is determined from the obtained evaluation result. Principal component analysis (PCA), SIMCA, or KNN is preferably used as an algorithm of the multivariate analysis.

A laser ablative recording element with a support having a certain Young's modulus and having thereon an image layer comprising an image dye or pigment dispersed in a polymeric binder, the image layer having a near infrared-absorbing material associated therewith to absorb at a given wavelength of the laser used to expose the element, the image dye or pigment absorbing in the region of from about 250 to about 700 nm, the element having a compliant layer between the support and the image layer, the compliant layer having a Young's modulus lower than that of the support, and the compliant layer having a thickness of between about 2 mum and about 200 mum.

To improve an optical property of a near-infrared-absorbing PDP filter and suppress a manufacturing cost. The present invention provides a dispersion liquid for near-infrared-absorbing adhesive-body. The dispersion liquid includes, in a solvent, one or more types of nanoparticles selected from a tungsten oxide nanoparticle and a composite tungsten oxide nanoparticle, and an acryl-based polymer dispersant is added to the dispersion liquid. The average dispersed nanoparticle diameter of the tungsten oxide nanoparticles and the composite tungsten oxide nanoparticles is equal to or smaller than 800 nm.

A technique for measuring broadband near-infrared absorption spectra of turbid media that uses a combination of frequency-domain and steady-state reflectance methods. Most of the wavelength coverage is provided by a white-light steady-state measurement, whereas the frequency-domain data are acquired at a few selected wavelengths. Coefficients of absorption and reduced scattering derived from the frequency-domain data are used to calibrate the intensity of the steady-state measurements and to determine the reduced scattering coefficient at all wavelengths in the spectral window of interest. The absorption coefficient spectrum is determined by comparing the steady-state reflectance values with the predictions of diffusion theory, wavelength by wavelength. Absorption spectra of a turbid phantom and of human breast tissue in vivo, derived with the combined frequency-domain and steady-state technique, agree well with expected reference values.

Multilayer coating systems, methods of applying and related substrates are disclosed. The coating system may comprise a first coating comprising a near-IR absorber, and a second coating deposited on a least a portion of the first coating. Methods of applying a multilayer coating composition to a substrate may comprise applying a first coating comprising a near-IR absorber, applying a second coating over at least a portion of the first coating and curing the coating with near infrared radiation.