PROSTATE CANCER DIAGNOSIS DEVICE USING FRACTAL DIMENSION VALUE, AND CORRESPONDING METHOD

摘要

The present invention relates to a prostate cancer diagnosis device including a semiconductor laser emitting a laser beam; an optical unit transmitting the laser beam to a prostate sample and receiving auto-fluorescence generated from the prostate sample; a detection unit detecting the auto-fluorescence received by the optical unit and measuring intensity of a single photon corresponding to a single pulse to detect intensity of the time-dependent auto-fluorescence (hereinafter referred to as an auto-fluorescence measured value); and a diagnosis unit calculating fractal dimension values DF of the auto-fluorescence measured value using a fractal dimension algorithm, and a prostate cancer diagnosis method using the same.