Biomedical Micro Probe for Super Resolved Image Extraction

Endoscopes are the common medical instrumentation used to perform medical inspection as well as treatment of internal organs. There are two main types of endoscopes: flexible and rigid. This chapter presents the development of special multi-functional micro probe that is created by combining hollow regions of a holey structure together with non-hollow regions to form multiple cores, some of which are made of appropriate electrically conductive material. The high resolution imaging capability and the fact that the edge of the micro probe is very thin allow localized biomedical inspection, visualization, and treatment with minimal invasive damage. The chapter also presents preliminary experimental results containing the capturing of a high resolution image that is transmitted backward through the proposed probe. After using super resolution, the obtainable resolution limit and the field of view improved and exceeded the state-of-the-art resolution and field of view available nowadays from conventional endoscopes.