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"Do You Wanna Build a Snowman" came on while I was riding his dick. I had to take a moment.
The bad news is that I stole all your drugs. The good news is that ITS KICKING IN!
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Well I woke up naked, with a santa hat on, and a bag of beef jerky next to me. So yeah, I would say it was a pretty successful trolley
I have so many plans for this weekend and sobriety is not invited.
Something like that. Healthy diet of beer, ranch sunflower seeds and sex keeps me young.
I'm not even pretending to study anymore. I'm straight up sleeping in the library
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We had sex in the morning in pregnant lady position. Like fuck me like the hott piece of ass that I am, not your wife of 7 years.
Sounds good. Look at us. Planning sex like proper adults.
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University of Florida - Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program
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From dramatic changes in curriculum to new partnerships with local shelters, veterinary schools nationwide are making positive changes to keep pace with the times and public opinion.
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In some areas of the country, animal shelters take in more stray hunting hounds than pit bulls. Often undernourished and unsocialized, hunting dogs pose unique challenges for shelters. Here are some tips for meeting their needs and getting them into happy homes.
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UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program
The shelter medicine program at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine has a wealth of information on disease control, facility design, animal housing and many other topics.
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Breyer wades into Supreme Court ethics debate
Saturday - 1/7/2012, 5:19pm EST
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer waded into a recent debate over ethics on the nation's highest court Saturday, defending the way he and his colleagues decide whether to remove themselves from considering a case.
In recent months lawmakers and interest groups have called for two of the Supreme Court's nine justices to remove themselves from the coming arguments over President Barack Obama's health care law for ethical reasons. Republicans want Justice Elena Kagan to recuse herself from the case because of her work as solicitor general in the Obama administration. Democrats, meanwhile, say Justice Clarence Thomas should not consider the case because of his wife's work with groups that opposed the health care overhaul.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts defended his colleagues' ethical practices in late December in an annual year-end report to Congress. He wrote that justices voluntarily follow the same code of conduct required of lower court judges. And he said he has "complete confidence" in his colleagues' ability to decide whether to withdraw from considering a case.
Speaking at a conference of law school professors being held in Washington, Breyer also defended the court's ethical practices in response to a question.
"There's a code of ethics. It's 24 volumes. It's in my office. It's up in the library. Before I have any case that involves ethics I go read it and see what's there," he said, adding that the code and two statutes guide him in the same way they do any lower court judge.
"We are bound. We're acting as if we're bound," he said of the code of conduct.
But Breyer, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1994, acknowledged there is a difference in the way a lower court judge and a Supreme Court justice decides to sit out a case. When he was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, he said, he'd recuse himself if there was a close ethical question of whether he should hear the case.
"Why not? I hate to admit it, but judges are fungible. If they don't have me they can get somebody else. Who cares?" Breyer said of that time.
Now, however, as a Supreme Court justice, whether he participates in a case or not could change the result because no one can replace him, he said.
"That means I have to take with absolute seriousness the obligation to sit as well as the obligation not to sit," he said, echoing sentiments also expressed by the Chief Justice in his report.
When he has a question about a case, he said he looks at the code of ethics, reads the statute and then calls an ethics professor for advice.
"All my colleagues try to do the same thing, so I think this is a non-issue," he said.
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The next meeting will be June 8, 2015. Come join us and become an active part or your Retirees Group. As always spouses are also invited to all meetings.
We are sorry to announce that both Jerry Menz (Recording Secretary) and Tom Baum (Vice President) have decided to retire from their positions. Tom wants to do other things and Jerry has retired for personal reasons. These men have worked hard at their jobs and have helped to make this group as successful as it is and they will be missed by the entire board. I have appointed Thad Rutherford as temp Recording Secretary and Herb Williams as trustee. Mike Kalinchak will assume the office as Vice President. During the October meeting we had nominations for new officers. As all the offices were unopposed the standing Executive Board will continue to serve the membership. The officers are now.
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As part of the broader Open Government initiatives of the Obama administration, various agencies of the US Department of Labor (DOL) have expanded direct public access to their inspection and enforcement data, which are posted on a comprehensive Web site.21 The data underlying the site arise primarily from the enforcement activities of the agencies. Each agency offers different types of information and levels of detail to the public, which reflect differences in agency mission, nature of the regulatory process, sophistication of data collection, and administrative processes, such as case-review procedures.22 The agencies provide a variety of information, including details about the inspected entity (such as industry, firm and establishment size, and single-plant vs. multiplant status), characteristics (such as time spent and type of inspection activity) and outcomes of the investigation (such as standards violated, severity of violations, and penalties assessed), and related administrative processes (appeals and their results). Accordingly, the data on the site are primarily in Category 1.
The site is regularly expanded and improved. Prior updates have focused on making it easier for users to search by common criteria, such as company name or industry grouping. That potentially provides information about the compliance behavior of a specific employer or industry for a range of workplace laws. DOL is planning a number of future updates to increase usability, including display of data through maps and interactive "dashboards" and engaging public users of the data in finding "innovative ways of using DOL's enforcement data to promote worker's safety and protect worker's rights".23
In addition to the information on the comprehensive DOL Web site, some of the individual agencies in DOL post detailed facility-specific safety data. For purposes of illustration, we focus here on the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). MSHA is responsible for the enforcement of health and safety standards for underground and surface metal and nonmetal mines. Compliance with detailed health and safety requirements is determined through physical inspection of mining facilities, interviews with mine operators and with workers and their representatives (in unionized mines), and review of administrative information. Inspectors also sample dust and air.
The most extensive mine-level data available to the public are published on the MSHA Web site.24 Those data originate in the electronic information systems maintained by the agency. The data are stored in 16 linked databases that provide information on inspections, citations, penalties, and abatement requirements. The site also provides mine-level data on fatalities and
21See http://ogesdw.dol.gov/ (accessed June 7, 2011).
22With respect to the latter dimension, agencies vary according to when the results of completed inspections and investigations are publicly posted. The Wage and Hour Division posts only cases that are considered "closed" (for example, all appeals of the investigators' findings have been resolved). In contrast, the Mine Safety and Health Administration posts inspection data even when a mine operator or other party is appealing parts of a decision, such as penalties.
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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- Good pitching and colorful home-run trots are the hallmarks of the undefeated team from Kawaguchi City, Japan.
Go Matsumoto homered and got starter Seigo Yada out of a sixth-inning jam with some sharp relief pitching in Japan's 3-0 win on Saturday night over Mexico to capture the Little League World Series international championship.
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"The resilience of socio-economic and environmental systems is now being tested against the demands of a rapidly growing global population and sustainable economic growth. Malaysia is no exception: we are also actively trying to strike a balance between environmental conservation and development."
"This has not been an easy path for a developing nation," he said. "After all, if we look around the world, many high-income countries achieved prosperity at the expense of the environment, not in concert with it. Nevertheless we take lessons from the experience of others, and striking that delicate balance between development and environmental conservation we must."
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My family is still there. I'm active duty Navy, currently in Oklahoma City, OK. I have a 2011 eco. Got it used in January (although it's like a new car for me, newest I've had, first one with under 100k on it lol). I'm not much of a car buff so not sure you'll see too much from me. I'm more a computer nerd.
Hey sorry to bother you, saw you were from Cincinnati, thought I would send you a message. That's my home town, family is actually still there. From the price hill area. How about yourself?
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I know you used to have a 1.8 M6 with the Trifecta tune. What kind of improvements did you get out of the tune?
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My DS has retractile testes (meaning they can be pushed down in to the scrotum, but they never stay there on their own- the cremaster muscle keeps them up in his body). Our ped. mentioned that we would need to see a urologist if it does not resolve by 15 months, and at 12, almost 13 months it is still the same. So, I am trying to prepare myself for a urologist and possible surgery. My ped. has never touched DS's penis, and I feel very fortunate for that. But I worry about a urologist (he should have no reason to touch his penis if we are going for a testicle issue), but if he does need surgery to correct this, will they have to cath him? I really worry about that. Ugh. Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks!
It is common to cath during that surgery (I don't know if it is strictly necessary though.) Urologist can be the worst about forcefully retracting.
It is okay to meet several before you choose one. You can ask around your area for recommendations for foreskin friendly ones, and/or contact Doctors Opposing Circumcision (DOC) for recommendations. Interview all Drs and ask open ended questions that aren't leading to assess their true opinions/knowledge.
Read all consent forms very very carefully. Make sure the Dr who you chose and spoke with actually is the one doing the surgery (years ago a poster's child was circ'd during a diagnostic procedure that was done by a different Dr than the one the parents had spoken with and thought would do the procedure.) Be extremely clear about what you do not give consent to do.
Ask about the possibility of using a condom catheter, if the only concern is him peeing on the site during surgery. If they are concerned about urine retention, and he needs to be cath'd, try asking for a NICU nurse to do the cath. Or, If you can get a foreign trained pediatric nurse from a non-circ country (Ireland, India, etc) they should know how to do it.
I like the idea of contacting nocirc and getting the name of a foreskin friendly urologist near you so you wont only be stressing about his surgery but whether he will come back to you the way he went in.
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My son had an orchioplasty for an undescended testicle and inguinal hernia back in 2007. We were clear with the pediatric urologist at Children's hospital in Pittsburgh that he wasn't to touch our sons penis. He told us he had no reason to, "it is a non-issue" were (some) of his exact words. He outright lied to us. I may very well be the mama that the post above is referring to as I did not realize until we were an hour away from the hospital that he was surgically and forcibly retracted. Our family went through a huge ordeal. Filed a complaint with the board of ethics at the hospital, filed a formal complaint with the State Licensing Board. They found just cause to conduct a formal investigation, but the doctor claimed he retracted because my son had phimosis (we know that isn't possible for a 2 yr old and know he was developing just fine and normally). I appealed the decision but nothing ever came of it. Now, interestingly, the doctor isn't practicing anymore, so I wonder if something happened internally (within the hospital) that pushed him out-and I'm glad he cannot hurt anymore children with his ignorance.
My advice (and I'm VERY serious) is EVERYTHING EVERYONE HAS SAID prior to my post... but one more VERY important thing: write, with a thin sharpie, the day of your son's surgery, above his penis, "Do NOT circ OR RETRACT, or you will be SUED". Also, I would suggest having a very direct conversation with the doctor (make sure noone else will be meddling with you son...) about the AAP policy on intact care. As a matter of fact, I would print it and highlight the section on forced retraction. (Also, you can sign the consent forms, but write something to the effect, "I do not consent to any circumcision or forced retraction of my son's foreskin...this notice supercedes anything that may suggest within this context of this form that it is up to the discretion of the surgeon to circ/retract."-signed, mama bear...
Hope everything works out well....
I also think you need to have your demand that his foreskin be left alone in writing and signed by the medical staff that will be attending your son. I would set up an appointment with the anesthesia people and have a meeting with THE anesthesiologist who will be caring for your son during his surgery. The general practice, as I understand it, is that you get assigned some random anesthesiologst. It is possible to have a specific one selected and for you to have a pre-op meeting with him/her in person. (I know, I did it many years ago for myself.) I would have this person sign your statement.
I would run through the list of people who will be caring for your child and have them sign a statement that they have read, understand and agree not to retract your son - including the surgeon, the anesthesiologist, the OR nurse, the recovery room nurse.
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TDP nominee for Bheemunipatnam Assembly segment Ganta Srinivasa Rao is optimistic that the projects initiated by him as Minister will contribute to his success in the election. He said protests against the proposed merger of Bheemunipatnam in the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) would not have an impact as the proposal was recommended by the sitting MLA based on the aspirations of the people. "We will go by the people's decision on merger of Bheemunipatnam. The merger of Anakapalle was welcomed by the people," he says.
"I had no inkling that I would be given the ticket to contest from Bheemunipatnam. Though I was a Minister for a short period of two years, I was instrumental in getting funds to the tune of Rs.55 crore for the Vizag – Bheemunipatnam beach corridor. The DPR for a satellite port in Bheemunipatnam was prepared and Rs.2 crore was sanctioned."
"After bifurcation, Bheemunipatnam has the highest potential for development as most of the areas in Visakhapatnam have reached the saturation level. It can be developed like Madapur and the proposed Metro Rail project for Vizag would connect to Bheemunipatnam. There is lot of scope for development of the film industry," he says.
YSRC nominee Karri Seetharam feels that the pro-poor schemes introduced by the late Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy will see him through in the elections.
Mr. Seetharam returned after a hectic day's election campaign at Majjivalasa around 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday. "I won against the four-time MLA and TDP candidate RSDP Appalanarasimha Raju, in 2004 despite being a newcomer then," he recalls with a sense of pride in his voice. He claims credit for undertaking development works worth Rs.5 crore like laying of tar roads to about 75 per cent of the villages, sanctioning of a water scheme with Rs.17 crore to tide over water crisis and renovation of the Bheemunipatnam Municipal Office with Rs.50 lakh. "I do not have rebel trouble and you can see that the party ticket aspirants like Korada Rajababu and P. Uma Rani are behind me. On the other hand, Anita 'akka' (Anita Sakuru) would cause a dent in the TDP vote bank," he says.
On the long-pending demand for construction of an RTC Complex at Tagarapuvalasa, he says though land was identified for the purpose, the construction could not be taken up. He also alleged that his successor had failed to continue the development works.
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Australia looking to buy four more C-17 transport aircraftAustralian Defence Minister Sen. David Johnston has announced that up to four more Boeing C-17A Globemaster III strategic airlifters could be acquired for the Royal Australian Air Force, according to my colleagues at Defense News.
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The Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve's headquarters was transformed into a small zoo Saturday, attracting hundreds of visitors who gawked and thrilled at the sight of raccoons, opossums, tarantulas, hawks, snakes and lizards ---- and learned a few lessons about the creatures along the way.
The third annual Family Wildlife Day was a fundraiser to support the plateau's thriving educational program ---- about 7,000 third-graders visit the site each year ---- and teach Southwest County families about the animals they share the region with, event organizer Nancy Backstrand said.
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Another tip? Don't hike alone, she said.
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As families strolled the event, plateau docents and other volunteers gave short lectures in excited tones to keep kids interested and parents engaged.
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Other stuffed insects sat under a microscope or were preserved behind glass.
Cindy Myers, a volunteer with the San Diego-based Project Wildlife group, espoused the benefits of bats to those who passed her display.
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Myers said there are 23 species of bats in Southern California.
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The invention relates to an endoscope used for lighting and visualizing the fields of an object in cavities. The inventive endoscope comprises a lighting unit and an image transmitting system provided with an optical lens on the distal side thereof and with an optical eyepiece or a filming unit which are used as an observation system on the proximal side thereof. Said endoscope is characterized in that an optical dividing element for complementary light polarization or for wavelength bands and the complementary polarization is inserted between the lighting unit, the image transmitting system, and the visualizing system in such a way that the light emitted by the lighting unit can be injected into the image transmitting system. The dividing element for the complementary light polarization is combined with a quarter-wave plate which is arranged before the lens on the distal side thereof.
1. An endoscope for lighting and observing object fields in cavities, with a lighting unit and an elongated endoscopic image transmitting system to which are assigned on the distal side an optical lens and on the proximal side an optical eyepiece or a filming unit as an observation system, which on the proximal side contains an optical dividing element which is inserted between the lighting unit, the elongated image transmitting system and the observation system such that the observation light produced by the lighting unit can be coupled into the elongated image transmitting system, the optical dividing element being designed, with respect to reflection and transmission, for mutually complementary light polarizations, characterized in that on the distal side a quarter-wave plate is connected distal of the optical lens and further characterized in that an additional fiberoptic lighting system is provided to illuminate the cavity in white light and on the proximal side between the image transmitting system and the dividing element a neutral divider is inserted to separate a part of the returning light for an additional observation.
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16. An endoscope for lighting and observing object fields in cavities, with a lighting unit and an elongated endoscopic image transmitting system to which are assigned on the distal side an optical lens and on the proximal side an optical eyepiece or a filming unit as an observation system, which on the proximal side contains an optical dividing element which is inserted between the lighting unit, the elongated image transmitting system and the observation system such that the observation light produced by the lighting unit can be coupled into the elongated image transmitting system, the optical dividing element being designed, with respect to reflection and transmission, for mutually complementary light polarizations, characterized in that the optical dividing element is additionally designed, with respect to reflection and transmission, for mutually complementary wavelength ranges, with the wavelength range which is coupled into the elongated image transmitting system being in the shortwave spectral range, and the wavelength range coupled out into the observation system being in the longer-wave spectral range which follows the shortwave spectral range, characterized in that on the distal side a quarter-wave plate is arranged distal of the optical lens and further characterized in that an additional fiberoptic lighting system is provided to illuminate the cavity in white light and on the proximal side between the image transmitting system and the dividing element a neutral divider is inserted to separate a part of the returning light for an additional observation.
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This application is a continuation of PCT/EP2003/010653 filed Sep. 25, 2003 which designates the United States and claims priority of German Application No. 102 46 521.5 filed Oct. 5, 2002.
The invention relates to an endoscope used for lighting and visualizing the fields of an object in cavities. The inventive endoscope comprises a lighting unit and an image transmitting system provided with an optical lens on the distal side thereof and with an optical eyepiece or a filming unit which are used as an observation system on the proximal side thereof.
Endoscopes of this type in rigid and flexible design are known and described, for instance, in the paper "Optical Principles of Endoscopy" by R. Prescott, J. Med Primatol. 5 (1976): 133-147, in their fundamental characteristics. All endoscopes of this kind known to date include, besides the transmitting system for image capture and image transmission, a separate system for light transmitting to illuminate the field of the object to be observed. The field can be in the cavity of a technological or biological subject.
Among small-caliber endoscopes in particular, the so-called mini-endoscopes, these separate transmitting systems lead to an overproportionate increase in diameter. Another important reason is that both transmitting systems must be isolated from one another both optically and mechanically in order, first, to prevent inductive disturbance of the light from the illuminating system to the image transmitting system and, second, to maintain a stable and autoclave-resistant total system.
The thinnest image transmitting systems are already in the vicinity of 200 micrometers and possess a resolution of approximately 6000 image elements. If one were to create a conventional mini-endoscope on this basis, an additional light control system becomes necessary, one that is adapted in optical isolation, coaxially in part, to the image conductor. Most often the coaxially constructed system is also surrounded by a coating for mechanical stability and to secure the light-conducting fibers and the autoclavability. The diameter of the entire mini-endoscope, with these measures, amounts to more than twice the diameter of the image conductor. With larger endoscopes, this ratio is not quite so extreme, but here too there is a significant increase owing to the separate light canal. With a rigid endoscope with rod lenses, the lens system, for instance, has a diameter of about 2.8 mm and the entire system with light and mechanical coating approximately 4.0 mm.
For many applications there is a desire to improve the ratio between the image conductor and the entire diameter of the endoscopic system. In particular, in dental medicine there are applications in which extremely thin and flexible endoscopes are required, for instance in the inspection of the artificially opened dental root canal as far as the apex, or in the inspection of the spinal canal.
From DE 196 39 653 A1, we have endoscopes for visualizing biological tissue that are used in fluorescent endoscopy. Light is applied with a short-wave stimulation and fluorescent light of a long-wave emission is received as an image and endoscopically transmitted. The fluorescent light contains information that can be used to characterize the tissue. The stimulus light is radiated onto the tissue by a separate light conductor parallel to the transmission of the fluorescent light. The degrees of transmission in the light-admitting and image-producing part are selected so that the image of the tissue area to be illuminated with stimulation light is produced by means of fluorescent light and reflected lighting light, and both portions contributing to the image production are produced, in terms of their wavelength and their intensity, in such a way that no reciprocal disturbance occurs.
In this application, also, a general development aim consists in further reducing the endoscope diameters in order to have a thinner instrumentation for reducing traumatization of the patient. Often, however, in opposition to this aim, the light intensity radiated by the light conductors is no longer great enough for sufficient fluorescent stimulation and the fluorescent radiation captured by the image conductor is insufficient for the sensitivity of the detection system.
Other systems for examining body cavities have an image formation system consisting of an optical lens and an optical eyepiece that allows only relatively short image formation paths to be encompassed.
A Kopol microscope for visualizing processes in body cavities of living organisms is described in DE 1 746 649 U. The device contains a lighting unit, an optical lens, and an optical eyepiece. The illuminating light is inserted by means of an interference-mirror filter into the observation ray path between the optical lens and the eyepiece. For fluorescent observation a blue filter is inserted into the lighting unit and a blocking filter for residues of the blue stimulation ray is arranged before the eyepiece. For clarified observation a polarization filter is inserted into the observation unit and a polarization-blocking filter is placed before the eyepiece for the portions of the polarizing observation rays reflected inside the device. The tube to be inserted into the body cavity with the lens is very short and has a relatively large diameter.
DE 35 42 207 A1 describes a device to carry out medical examinations in body cavities. The device contains a filming unit aimed at the photographic area to be examined. In one embodiment the light for lighting the photographic area is guided to the object, coaxially to the optical axis, by means of a semi-transparent mirror arrange before the camera. A polarization filter for producing special effects can be placed behind the semi-transparent mirror. The lighting system is positioned in a short tube, with relatively large diameter, placed on the camera.
JP 2002-023 067 A describes an optical system for an electronic endoscope. The system contains, on the object side, an object lens, before which a quarter-wave plate and a polarizer are arranged. The polarizer consists of two rectilinear prisms forming a cube, and the surfaces of the prisms lying on one another contain a polarization foil. The illuminating light is directed at the polarizer by a light conductor; the illuminating light is polarized linearly on the polarization foil and circularly by the quarter-wave plate. The ray reflected by the object and received by the object is in turn linearly polarized vertically to the illuminated ray in known manner by the quarter-wave plate and is reflected on the polarization foil in the direction toward an electronic filming unit. The diameter of the system portion to be introduced into the body cavity is relatively large because of the dimensions of the polarizer and the contiguous filming unit.
It is therefore the aim of the invention to create an endoscope with a further reduced diameter in which lighting directed from outside can be of sufficient intensity without being required to restrict the diameter of the image transmitting system required for image transmission.
This aim is fulfilled according to the invention with an endoscope of the aforementioned type in that on the proximal side an optical dividing element is inserted for complementary light polarizations or for complementary wavelength bands and light polarization between the lighting unit, the image transmitting system, and the visualizing system in such a way that the illumination light produced by the lighting unit can be inserted into the image transmitting system. Here, because of an insufficient separation sharpness of the dividing element, it is generally not possible to avoid having portions of the illuminating light also enter the visualizing system. Analogously to the fluorescent endoscopy described in DE 196 39 653 A1, this is even an advantage. In principle, however, one aspires to the fullest possible separation of the complementary light portions.
By inserting a small quarter-wave plate before the optical lens on the distal side, the effectiveness of the separation according to light polarizations on the dividing element is substantially improved.
If the dividing element is optimized for complementary light polarizations, then additional spectral filters can be provided for the short-wave and longer-wave spectral area. Of course, it is also possible to provide special spectral filters to increase the separation sharpness of a spectrally and polarization-optically separating dividing element and special polarization filters to increase the separation sharpness of a purely polarization-optical dividing element or of a spectrally and polarization-optical dividing element.
Additional advantageous embodiments of the invention can be derived from the characteristics of the additional subsidiary claims.
Because of the arrangement of the dividing element, the entire cross-section of the image transmitting system is now available for transmitting the illuminating light. Because this cross-section is usually greater than the cross-section of an otherwise customary separate light transmitting system, the conditions for transmitting a sufficient light intensity for fluorescent stimulation are substantially improved. By omitting a separate light-conducting system on the dividing element, an effective separation of the lighting unit from the observation system is ensured.
The principles of an endoscopic fiber bundling system with a post-mounted cordierite beam divider are described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,298,741A. Here an arrangement is described in which one or more fluorescent materials are applied to the surface on the distal end of the fiber bundling system and form a reaction with the adjacent bodily fluids or with a tissue component and thus are stimulated to a concentration-dependent fluorescence when they are radiated with light of an appropriate wavelength. The stimulation light is selected by the stimulation filter and inserted by means of a cordierite dividing into the fiber bundling system. The fluorescent light arising at the distal end of the fiber bundling system is transmitted by the same fiber bundling system back to the proximal end and by the cordierite dividing and an additional appropriate detection filter is directed to an evaluation system. The system is not appropriate for endoscopic observation of a cavity.
It has been shown, surprisingly, that in the proximal-side arrangement of an optical dividing element for complementary light polarization both the necessary light for illumination in the one direction and the light coming out of the cavity for observation in the other direction can be transmitted and, after separation, can be evaluated and observed on the dividing element without mutual disturbance. Here, advantageously, it is possible as image transmitting systems to provide multi-fiber image-conducting systems with level end surfaces, image transmitting systems made up of rod lenses with bent end surfaces, or else gradient-index rod lenses with level end surfaces.
The use of complementary wavelength areas for lighting and observations is especially advantageous in processes of fluorescent diagnosis on biological tissue. The lighting normally proceeds at wavelengths of close UV up to 430 or 450 nm, and the observation in the respective adjoining longer-wave spectral area.
On the other hand, it can also be desirable to be able to observe the object field in white light. The additional illumination light required for lighting the object field can usually also be guided onto the distal end of the endoscope by a separate, relatively thin-caliber fiberoptic lighting system. For observation in white light, on the proximal side between the image transmitting system and the dividing element it is possible to insert a neutral divider with appropriate dividing ratio which uncouples one part of the returning light from the beam path for observation.
However, if lighting and observation occur in the same wavelength area, then the lighting light and the observation light can be linearly polarized vertically to one another. To avoid disturbing reflexes, it is advantageous here to install a quarter-wave plate before the distal end of the image transmitting system a quarter-wave plate. This plate, in a manner essentially known in the state of the art, produces circularly polarized light from linearly polarized light. After reflection on the tissue to be observed, the circularly polarized light on the quarter-wave plate is transformed into 90-degree rotated linearly polarized light, which is separated on the dividing element for observation.
The illumination light is usually substantially brighter in comparison to the observation light. Reflections of the illumination light on glass/air surfaces or cemented surfaces within the image transmitting system can thus be in the same order of magnitude as the observation light reflected on the tissue. For an optimal separation of the observation light from the illumination light it is therefore advantageous to design the dividing element both for a separation by wavelength areas and by light polarization.
The optical dividing element, in essentially familiar manner, can advantageously be constructed from two equal-sided rectilinear prisms forming a cube, in which the hypotenuse surface of one of the rectilinear prisms is coated with a polarization-optic or with a spectral and polarization-optic filter layer and where in each case an individual appropriate cathetus surface is related to the lighting unit, the image transmitting system, and the observation system. Complementary polarization or spectral filter elements can be related to the cathetuses.
When an image transmitting system with a proximally plane end surface is used, the cube with the related cathetus surface can be applied to this end surface. A surface-image sensor with integrated semiconductor-based loading or electron duplicator and possibly a cooling element can be linked to the cathetus surface for the observation system. A laser diode matrix as light source can be linked to the cathetus surface for the lighting unit. Such an arrangement of the lighting and observation means on the dividing element allows for an extremely compact construction of the endoscope.
The lighting unit, the dividing element, and the observation system can in particular be combined in a single housing unit which is provided with an adapter for replaceable insertion of the image transmitting system on the related cathetus surface of the dividing element. In this manner it is also possible to use one-way image transmitting systems. As light sources it is advantageous to employ xenon, mercury-vapor, or halide lamps, or else a laser system can be inserted into the housing unit. In particular, with the help of a laser system it is possible to produce light intensities of the strength necessary for photodynamic therapy (PDT), that is, for the selective destruction of tissue during visual observation.
The dividing element can also be positioned replaceably in the housing unit for adaptation to varying observation processes.
The illustrations show schematic depictions of embodiments and are described hereafter with reference to the figures.
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The dividing element 5 consists of two equal-sided rectilinear prisms 19, which are combined with their hypotenuse surfaces and thus form a cube. The hypotenuse surfaces of the rectilinear prisms 19 are covered with a polarization-optic or spectral and polarization-optic dividing layer 20. The spectral dividing layer 20 is intended to be transparent, for instance, for a pre-selected wavelength area out of the emission spectrum of the lamp 15 and to be reflecting for a complementary, i.e. long-wave, wavelength band. The reflected radiation portion is directed against the wall of the housing unit 14 and absorbed there, for instance in a flat back coating as a beam trap.
As a polarization-optical dividing layer it is possible, for instance, to provide a polarization foil, which linearly polarizes the radiation of the lamp 15 passing through the foil. A good polarization can be produced over a broad wavelength area, so that quasi-white light is into the image transmitting system 2. Of course, a combination in the spectral boundary of the wavelength area and of the linear polarization is also possible, which even basically approximates the spectral dependency of the polarization foil. The dividing layer 20 also be combined with selected complementary filter elements 8, 9 depending on the application purpose.
The image transmitting system 2 can preferably be configured as a multi-fiber image conductor. Such a system is relatively flexible and generally possesses a high spectral transmission if the fibers are produced from quartz glass. Therefore greater lengths can also be produced, without significant reduction in light transmission. The systems, in view of the total diameter, have a relatively good image quality. The quartz glass, in addition, has no fluorescence of its own. The end surfaces are generally level.
The length of the multi-fiber image conductor that can be produced can be selected in such a way that the proximal end surface lies outside the sterile patient area. On the basis of the relatively low costs of the multi-fiber image conductor because of its simply and automated production, it is therefore advantageous to position the image conductor so that it can be separated from the device unit 14 and can be used as a one-way product. In this way it is possible to avoid the cleaning, sterilization, and contamination problems that arise from every usage.
In the embodiment in
The image transmitting system 2 is provided on its distal end surface 23 with a lens system 3. The lens system 3 can, for instance, be configured as a gradient lens which is soldered onto the end surface 23 in order to prevent fluorescence of its own by an adhesive. When linearly polarized light is used, a quarter-wave plate (not illustrated) can be applied on the level end surface 23.
The visualization light separated by the lens system 3 sheds light on a particular angle area before the lens system 3. The system is so configured that an image with an image angle corresponding, at least for the most part, to the angle of lighting is captured by the distal-side lens system 3.
The image received by the lens system 3 consists, in the case of the fluorescent diagnosis, of a radiation with a wavelength that is complementary to the illumination light. The radiation belonging to the image is reflected on the dividing layer 20 and conveyed to the observation system. Likewise, with linear polarization of the observation light, the radiation belonging to the image will be polarized vertically to it and thus also reflected on the dividing layer 20.
The illustrated observation system consists of a field lens 24 and, for instance, a surface image sensor 25 according to the principle of single photon detection (SPD principle). This image sensor has the advantage that the means for image reinforcement are integrated into the semiconductor chip, so that a light and compact structure is possible for the image formation. In cooperation with the image transmitting by a multi-fiber image conductor, a two-dimensional PSD image receptor also has the advantage that the image points arising from every individual image fiber partly overlap with image points situated near them, so that a more uniform image results.
A cooling device 26, which is also attached to the SPD image sensor 25, can be for instance a Peltier element or else a container with cooled CO2. To control the image sensor 25 and the cooling device 26, in the housing unit 14 there is also a control device 27. This can also control a monitor (not illustrated) for visual image observation.
In the embodiment shown in
These disadvantages can be avoided if the image transmitting system is constructed with rod lenses of a gradient index material with level end surfaces.
The lighting unit 1 contains a light-conductor bundle 28, which is applied laterally on a viewer housing 30 so that the illumination light is reflected on the dividing surface 20 and the observation 4 occurs in transmitting.
These disadvantages can be avoided if the image transmitting system is constructed with rod lenses of a gradient index material with level end surfaces.
The lighting unit 1 contains a light-conductor bundle 28, which is applied laterally on a viewing housing 30 so that the illumination light is reflected on the dividing surface 20 and the observation 4 occurs in transmitting.
The embodiment shown in
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Thanks for the suggestions, folks. I'm seriously looking at the Presque Isle Marina. Now I just need to make the finances work to get the boat.
Forget presque isle marina. There is a few years wait. I dont think you are allowed to sleep on your boat overnight. You have to motor out about 300 yards into Marina lake and drop anchor.
Presque Isle bay is great. once you start going there you will laugh at Marain state park. Lake Erie is good sailing in the summer months, if its too rough you can usually still sail along the coast East of Erie or stay in the Bay. If the Winds are out of the North East, just stay in the Bay.
I have been sailing out of Erie Pa for over 30 years. I had a trailerable Macgregor 26D and spent many nights in Marina Lake or I would sail across Lake Erie and drop anchor at long point lighthouse in Canada. There are some small towns if you cross the bay further into Canada.
30 miles west in Conneat Ohio. You can drop anchor there, they have some small restraunts there. .
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