视向与景深可调的硬性内窥物镜设计

    Design of rigid endoscope objective lens system with adjustable viewing direction and depth of field

    • 摘要: 内窥镜技术是微创手术领域的基石之一,然而传统的硬性内窥镜存在单个设备绑定特定的视向角以及景深范围较小的局限性,提出一种适用于腹腔手术环境的视向与景深可调的色差校正内窥镜系统及图像恢复算法,硬件结构由小型化的液体棱镜、固体物镜组与电润湿液体透镜构成。设计的物镜的物方最小分辨距离为0.055 mm, 物方角分辨率为 6.34 cycle/°,建立了系统的光学模型。仿真模拟结果表明,系统在70°视场范围基础上可实现视向角在xy方向上 ±7.2°的动态视向偏转,且在10 mm~25 mm工作距范围内均能清晰对焦成像,并保持调制传递函数(modulation transfer function,MTF)均大于 0.2@150 lp/mm,与系统原有景深相比,可观测深度提升约 68% 。针对视向角变化引入的额外色差,提出一种改进的全变分约束图像融合技术对其进行校正,将图像峰值信噪比相较传统算法提升约20%。设计的系统为解决传统医用内窥镜视向角无法灵活改变的问题提供了新思路。

       

      Abstract: Endoscopic technology constitutes one of the cornerstones in the field of minimally invasive surgery. Nevertheless, conventional rigid endoscopes are subject to the limitations of a fixed viewing angle per device and a narrow depth of field range. To address these drawbacks, the design of a chromatic aberration-corrected endoscopic system with adjustable viewing direction and depth of field, as well as a corresponding image restoration algorithm was proposed, which was tailored for the abdominal surgical environment. The hardware architecture was composed of a miniaturized liquid prism, a solid objective lens group, and an electrowetting liquid lens. This objective lens achieved a minimum object-side resolution distance of 0.055 mm and an object-side angular resolution of 6.34 cycles per degree. The optical model of the proposed system was established. Simulation results indicate that on the basis of a 70° field of view (FOV), the system can realize dynamic viewing angle deflection of ±7.2° along both the x and y axes. Moreover, it is capable of clear focused imaging within a working distance range of 10 mm to 25 mm, while maintaining a modulation transfer function (MTF) value greater than 0.2 at 150 lp/mm. Compared with the original depth of field of the system, the observable depth was increased by approximately 68%. To rectify the additional chromatic aberration induced by viewing angle variations, an improved total variation-constrained image fusion technique was proposed, increasing the peak signal-to-noise ratio of the image by approximately 20% compared to traditional algorithms. The proposed system provides a novel approach to solving the problem that the viewing angle of traditional medical endoscopes cannot be flexibly adjusted.

       

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