Surgery inventions 02/08

20080051621 - Magnetic device: The present invention is directed to a magnetic device for treating conditions such as incontinence, upper and lower back pain, irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis in the hand and fingers, menstruation problems and prostate problems. The magnetic device in a preferred form consists of a mesh with spaced apart holding portions... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20080051622 - Hard magnetic object and method for adjusting the direction and position of a magnetic vector: According to the invention a hard magnetic object, which magnetic vector is as far as possible within the frame of a predetermined tolerance range, consists at least of one hard magnetic moulding (1) and at least one further moulded element (11), which are combined with each other in such a... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080051623 - Simplified implantable hearing aid transducer apparatus: An implantable hearing aid transducer apparatus provides a simplified approach for interface with a middle ear component. The transducer includes a transducer housing, an actuator for middle ear coupling, and a driver having a magnet or coil interconnected to the actuator to induce movement in response to driver signals. In... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080051624 - Scaffold and method for implanting cells: An improved method of implanting cells in the body of a patient includes positioning viable cells on a support structure. One or more blood vessels may be connected with the support structure to provide a flow of blood through the support structure. A support structure may be positioned at any... Agent: Paul D. Bianco: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini, & Bianco P.l.

20080051625 - Phalloplasty: A method of widening a penis wherein a dermal fat graft comprising a block of fat and attached dermis is excised from the patient, the penis is degloved, the dermal fat graft is sutured to the exposed Bucks fascia and then reducing the penile skin; said method further including the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080051626 - Fistulectomy method between first duct and second duct, ultrasonic endoscope, catheter with balloon, magnet retaining device, and magnet set: A fistulectomy method of forming a fistula between a first duct and a second duct includes sticking a puncture needle into the second duct from the inside of the first duct through a wall surface of the first duct and a wall surface of the second duct, arranging the puncture... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080051627 - Endoscopic insertion of balloon system and method: The present disclosure provides a method and system to facilitate endoscopic insertion of a balloon into tissues, such as submucosal tissues, and optional resection of tissues elevated by the balloon when inflated. The system includes an endoscope with a delivery system for a detachable balloon having a seal. The balloon... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20080051628 - Handheld portable medical viewing assembly for displaying medical images during medical procedures and intubation stylet: Adapter for mounting a handheld portable consumer device having a built-in digital camera and a built-in display screen on a handheld portable endoscope for rendering a handheld portable medical viewing assembly for displaying medical images during a medical procedure, for recording same for subsequent processing, and the like. An intubation... Agent: Harold L. Novick Nath & Associates PLLC

20080051630 - Endoscopic lubricating and gripping device: A non-invasive device for lubricating and facilitating the insertion and removal of an endoscope into a body cavity. In one embodiment, the device consists of an annular outer tube having an inner diameter sized to permit sliding of an endoscope therethrough. The outer surface of the outer tube may be... Agent: Cahill, Von Hellens & Glazer P.L.C

20080051629 - Internal treatment apparatus for a patient and an internal treatment system for a patient: An internal treatment apparatus for a patient having a flexible tubular body to be introduced into a patient includes a center opening for inserting therethrough an endoscope for observing a target site, the center opening being circular in cross section and disposed at a center of an end face of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080051632 - Endoscope apparatus: An endoscope apparatus 1 includes: an elongated insertion section 7 inserted into an object subject to image-pickup; a light source section 3 for emitting laser light; a power supply unit 8 for supplying electric power to the light source section 3; an enclosure section 10 disposed in the power supply... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080051631 - Medical treatment endoscope: The medical treatment endoscope according to the present invention includes a sheath having a flexibility; at least one arm member having a bending part that projects out from a front end of the sheath and performs bending actions; an open/close mechanism which directs the arm member from a direction along... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080051633 - Apparatus, system and method to indicate in-vivo device location: A system, apparatus and method may indicate in-vivo device (10) location within a body utilizing for example illumination irregularities for calculation of location. There may be provided with an in-vivo imaging device (24) a set of dedicated illumination sources (43) and a set of detectors (30) located on an in-vivo... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080051634 - Endoscope: An outer sheath of a metal film is provided on an outer peripheral surface of a tube base layer of a channel tube which is provided within an insertion section and has flexibility. A grounding circuit provided in an operation section and the metal film are connected, and electromagnetic shield... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080051635 - Capsule-type medical apparatus and drug delivery system using the same: A capsule-type medical apparatus holds a drug such that a drug release such as dissolution can be realized under the same condition as in a case where the drug is delivered to an interior of a living body by itself, and realizes confirmation on whether the drug delivered to the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

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20080051637 - Digital otoscope: A digital otoscope for capturing live and still digital images of body tissue and having associated optical characteristics that improve the quality of visual information gathered for medical inspection of both human and veterinary subjects. The digital otoscope includes a tip element having dimensions that are small enough to fit... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080051640 - Computerized medical diagnostic and treatment advice system: A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic and treatment advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over a telephone network. Two new authoring languages, interactive voice response and speech recognition are used to enable expert and general practitioner knowledge to be encoded for access... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080051638 - Computerized medical diagnostic and treatment advice system including network access: A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic and treatment advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over networks, such as a telephone network or a computer network. The invention also includes a stand-alone embodiment that may utilize occasional connectivity to a central computer by... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080051639 - Disease management system and method including pain code: A system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain health state measurements from the patient, to evaluate and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080051641 - Disease management system including a no response method: A system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain health state measurements from the patient, to evaluate and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080051642 - Device, system and method of displaying in -vivo images at variable rate: Devices, systems and methods for displaying in-vivo images at variable rate. For example, a system includes a processor to gradually increase a frame display rate of an in-vivo image stream based on a similarity among two or more in-vivo frames of the in-vivo image stream.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080051643 - Apparatus for measuring skin moisture content and it's operation method: An apparatus for measuring skin moisture content, the apparatus including: an electrode unit comprising a reference (R) electrode, a current (C) electrode, and a measuring (M) electrode; an operational amplifier including an inverting input terminal that is supplied to a first voltage and connects with the R electrode, and an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080051644 - Lymphedema associated genes and model: The present invention identifies genes whose gene products are differentially expressed lymphedema tissues, particularly cutaneous tissue involved in whole organ response to lymphedema. The invention provides methods for diagnosing or assessing an individual's susceptibility to lymphedema. Also provided are therapeutic methods for treating a patient or methods for prophylactically treating... Agent: Bozicevic, Field & Francis LLP

20080051645 - Non-invasive methods of using spectral information in determining analyte concentrations: A non-invasive method of determining the concentration of an analyte uses Raman or fluorescence spectral information. A high-intensity band of light is applied to one side of skin tissue. The high-intensity light enters the skin tissue and generates a Raman or fluorescence signal. A Raman-generating material or fluorescence-generating material is... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20080051646 - Probe for cellular oxygen: A probe for sensing and imaging intracellular oxygen comprises an oxygen-sensitive fluorescent or phosphorescent dye combined with a hydrophilic macromolecular carrier and a cell loading agent. A method for sensing cellular oxygen using the probe is also described.... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080051647 - Non-invasive acquisition of large nerve action potentials (naps) with closely spaced surface electrodes and reduced stimulus artifacts: The present invention addresses the foregoing problems associated with the prior art by providing a novel method and apparatus for, non-invasively detecting large nerve action potentials (NAPs) while effectively minimizing or substantially eliminating stimulus artifacts, even where the stimulation site and the detection site are in close physical proximity to... Agent: Mark J. Pandiscio Pandiscio & Pandiscio, P.C.

20080051648 - Medical image enhancement system: Provided herein is a medical imaging system that allows for real-time guidance of, for example, catheters for use in interventional procedures. In one arrangement, an imaging system is provided that generate a series of images or frames during a dye injection procedure. The system is operative to automatically detect frames... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080051649 - Prediction and treatment of brain tumor spread using mri and external beam radiation: The invention is based on the realization that brain cancer cells spread preferentially along paths of elevated water diffusion, such as along nerve fiber bundles, that can be measured by magnetic resonance (MR) diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and the migration of cancer cells away from the primary tumor can be predicted... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080051650 - Digital modality modeling for medical and dental applications: A digital modality modeling system includes a computer with a digital memory adapted for storing patient densitometry information, an input and an output. An input subsystem includes a pair of source/receptor units mounted on a signal positioning subsystem, which is adapted for moving the source/receptor units through predetermined paths of... Agent: Mark Brown

20080051651 - Operation supporting device, method and program: Surgical operation supporting apparatus and method is disclosed in which based on a plurality of high-definition tomographic images of an operation site produced before surgery, a three-dimensional model of the operation site is generated, and a surface of the operation site is optically measured during the surgical operation, and further,... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20080051653 - System and method for image processing: Embodiments of the present invention may provide an image processing system and method for calculating the volume of a specific portion in a targeted body. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an image processing system may comprise a volume data receiver, a user interface, a display and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080051652 - Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and diagnostic method of the apparatus: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus of the present invention capable of operation with a three-dimensional ultrasonic image performs a scan with a 3D probe for a predetermined time to acquire 3D volume data, and displays a plurality of sections of a heart on a monitor display, in conducting a functional diagnosis... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080051654 - Medical imaging apparatus, an ultrasonic imaging apparatus, a viewer, and a method for recording ultrasonic images: An ultrasonic imaging apparatus acquires image data that shows ultrasonic images from an image-acquisition unit. The acquired image data becomes video data combined with screen data in a video-data-generating unit. A record-control unit sends to a superposition unit the video data combined with the image data. The superposition unit is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080051655 - Ultrasonic endoscope, therapeutic system, treatment method using therapeutic system, endoscopic system, treatment method using ultrasonic endoscope, t-bar, and t-bar suturing device: An ultrasonic endoscope includes an insertion section, an operation section, an optical observation system, and an ultrasonic observation system. The optical observation system is disposed in the insertable section, and has an objective lens located on a face of a distal end of the insertion section. The ultrasonic observing system... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080051656 - Method for using high intensity focused ultrasound: A plurality of concepts related to HIFU therapy are disclosed, including a technique to spatially track and display the relative positions of a HIFU focal point and an imaging plane from an ultrasound imager, so that a clinician can ensure that the HIFU focus remains in the image plane during... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20080051657 - Systems and methods for estimating the size and position of a medical device to be applied within a patient: The field of the invention relates to medical imaging systems, and more particularly to systems and methods for estimating the size and position of a stent or other medical device within a patient. In one embodiment, a medical imaging system includes an elongated tubular member having distal and proximal ends,... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080051658 - Apparatus for automatic detection of lumen-intima and media-adventitia interfaces in a blood vessel: An apparatus (100) for defining the lumen-intima interface (11) and media-adventitia interface (12) of a blood vessel (1), for example the carotid artery, includes means (40) for acquisition of a two-dimensional representation (10), for example a B-mode representation generated by an ultrasonographic machine (50), of a cross section of the... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20080051659 - Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus (ultrasonic elastograph) for measuring strain or elastic modulus of a tissue or an organ of a living body, creating a strain image or an elastic modulus image by assigning a hue to the measurement data corresponding to the measured value, combining these images with a black... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080051660 - Methods and apparatuses for medical imaging: A set of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) related systems, apparatuses and methods are disclosed. New catheter designs including contrast agent introduction subsystems and/or Doppler subsystems are disclosed. Methods for acquiring and analyzing Doppler data from intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) catheters are disclosed. RF-based detection of blood and/or contrast agents such as micro-bubbles... Agent: Robert W Strozier, P.l.l.c

20080051661 - Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic diagnostic method: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a Doppler velocity information acquiring unit, a region-of-interest-setting unit and an instantaneous flow calculating unit. The Doppler velocity information acquiring unit is configured to acquire three-dimensional Doppler velocity information from an object by a three-dimensional scan with transmission and reception of an ultrasonic wave. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080051662 - Arm brace for sonographers: A support for sonographers provides a path of force transmission from an ultrasound probe to the sonographer's upper arm bypassing the wrist, and thus reducing wrist injuries that can come from the need to tightly grip and restrain an ultrasound probe for long periods of time.... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080051663 - Ultrasonic diagnostic equipment and ultrasonic image generation method: The difference frequency component between a first fundamental wave of frequency f and a second fundamental wave of frequency f2 is caused to interact with a second harmonic wave, thereby to attain the enhancement of a second harmonic signal, etc., whereby a reflected wave component to be imaged is extracted... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080051664 - Autofluorescence detection and imaging of bladder cancer realized through a cystoscope: Near infrared imaging using elastic light scattering and tissue autofluorescence and utilizing interior examination techniques and equipment are explored for medical applications. The approach involves imaging using cross-polarized elastic light scattering and/or tissue autofluorescence in the Near Infra-Red (NIR) coupled with image processing and inter-image operations to differentiate human tissue... Agent: Michael D. Staggs Assistant Laboratory Counsel

20080051666 - Objective-lens guiding device and objective lens unit: Without setting an examination site, it is possible to easily position an end face of a narrow-diameter end portion at a suitable position with respect to an examination target, allowing an image of the examination site to be acquired quickly and easily. The invention provides an objective-lens guiding device comprising... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080051665 - Spectral unmixing for in-vivo imaging: Described herein are systems and methods for spectral unmixing of in vivo light data. The spectral unmixing separates image data according to spectra from multiple internal light sources in an effort to isolate one or more spectrum of interest. The spectral unmixing obtains images with a combination of different and... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080051667 - Method and device for measuring physiological parameters at the hand: A wrist-mounted device (100) for measuring at least one physiological parameter of the user. The present invention enables such a measurement to preferably be transformed into clinically useful information about the user. Such information may then optionally be sent to medical personnel, for example at a contact and/or monitoring center.... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080051668 - System and method for automated diagnosis of atrial fibrillation through remote monitoring: A system and method for automated diagnosis of atrial fibrillation through remote monitoring is described. Physiological measures including data either recorded on a regular basis by a medical device or derived therefrom are stored. Physiological measures recorded during a baseline period are identified. Physiological measures including cardiac rhythm and changes... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080051669 - Diagnosis of sleep apnea: The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for detecting sleep apnea by analyzing characteristic physiological oscillations of the heart rate variability (HRV). Starting from recorded ECG data of the patient, for example, as a long-term sequence of the changing RR intervals, the heart rate variability is examined using autocorrelation... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20080051670 - Patch sensor system for measuring vital signs: The invention provides a system for measuring vital signs from a patient that includes: 1) a first adhesive patch featuring a first electrode that measures a first electrical signal from the patient; 2) a second adhesive patch featuring a second electrode that measures a second electrical signal from the patient;... Agent: Triage Wireless, Inc. Matthew John Banet

20080051671 - Intravascular filter monitoring: Devices and methods for monitoring the flow of blood through an intravascular device are disclosed. An apparatus for monitoring blood flow in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an intravascular device coupled to an elongated member, a first sensor adapted to measure fluidic pressure proximal the... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080051672 - Wireless ecg in implantable devices: An implantable medical device such as an implantable pacemaker or implantable cardioverter/defibrillator includes a programmable sensing circuit providing for sensing of a signal approximating a surface electrocardiogram (ECG) through implanted electrodes. With various electrode configurations, signals approximating various standard surface ECG signals are acquired without the need for attaching electrodes... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080051673 - Motor unit number estimation (mune) for the assessment of neuromuscular function: A method for the assessment of neuromuscular function by motor unit number estimation, comprising: (i) determining and controlling stimulation and data acquisition process via pre-configured electrode array so as to acquire stable and less uncertainty MU responses; (ii) pre-processing acquired MUs responses so as to attenuate noise, determine MUs activity... Agent: Mark J. Pandiscio Pandiscio & Pandiscio, P.C.

20080051674 - Respiratory therapy system including a nasal cannula assembly: A nasal cannula, for supplying a respiratory gas to a patient, comprising: a pair of spaced apart supply lines which each have a head at one end thereof with a discharge opening therein. The opposite end of each supply line is connectable to a respiratory gas source. Each head is... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080051675 - Insertion sleeve assembly: An insertion sleeve assembly consisting of a sleeve and an insertion instrument. The sleeve is made of a material that collapses after having been introduced into the body and on withdrawal of the biopsy needle. Cells are captured as a result. Such a material can be a material that is... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080051676 - Extendable wire guide system: A wire guide includes at least one body portion and a threaded hermaphroditic connector at an end of the at least one body portion adapted to threadably engage a second substantially identical threaded hermaphroditic connector.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/chicago/cook

20080051677 - Method and apparatus for osteochondral autograft transplantation: An osteochondral transplantation procedure according to which a harvested graft is implanted in an area of a patient's body and is tracked relative to the area during the implantation. Images are displayed that correspond to the tracking.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080051678 - Method and device for measuring of oedema: The present invention concerns a method and a device for measurement and assessment of oedema, especially with regard to a combination of the two types of oedema called pitting oedema and brawny oedema. The method comprises the steps of reading the frequency of a freely and in resonance oscillating sensor,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080051679 - System and method for analyzing body mass: A body mass diagnostic system comprising input means for entry of at least one of weight data and other data and a computing device in communication with the input means. The computing device comprising a body mass index module for generating a BMI result for evaluation by a physician and... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080045774 - Methods for treating drug addiction, obesity and epilepsy: This invention provides methods for treating diseases related to cerebral disturbances, such as drug addiction, obesity and epilepsy. A method for treating diseases related to cerebral disturbances comprises: (a) imaging the cerebrum of a patient, (b) identifying a locus of cerebral disturbance, and (c) irradiating the locus of cerebral disturbance... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20080045775 - Method and apparatus for affecting neurologic function and/or treating neurologic dysfunction through timed neural stimulation: A method of selectively inhibiting or driving neural discharge or activity in or from a specific brain area One embodiment of a system and/or method directed toward affecting neurologic function may apply conditioning stimuli to a set of target neural populations. The conditioning stimuli are intentionally timed to occur within... Agent: Leif Sloan Northstar Neuroscience

20080045778 - System for improving diastolic dysfunction: An elastic structure is introduced percutaneously into the left ventricle and attached to the walls of the ventricle. Over time the structure bonds firmly to the walls via scar tissue formation. The structure helps the ventricle expand and fill with blood during the diastolic period while having little affect on... Agent: Dan Gelbart

20080045779 - Ventricular assist device and related computer program product: A cardiac ventricular assist device or VAD includes a pumping unit with a variable-volume chamber capable of receiving a mass of blood, and a control unit to control the pumping unit to obtain contraction of the variable-volume chamber, with consequent expulsion of the blood collected in the chamber, and expansion... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20080045781 - Urinary incontinence device: A urinary control device for sealing off at a neck and along the inside wall of a bladder to prevent leaking and dislodging of the device from within the bladder is disclosed. The device includes an inner tubular member. The device also includes an expandable sealing member. A deployable stiffening... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080045784 - Phalloplasty technique: A technique for penal enlargement. The apparent length of the penis is first increased by cutting ligaments that attach the penis to the pubic bone. Then the girth of the penis is increased by making two cuts making two apertures in the penile skin near the base of the penis... Agent: John R. Ross

20080045773 - Positioning device and a procedure for treating the walls of a resection cavity: A positioning device (1) for treating the inner walls of a resection cavity, which was created by surgically removing of at least a portion of a tumor in a living body, characterized by the fact that the material of the device (1), part(s) of the device and accessories of the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080045776 - Means and methods for treating headaches: Disclosed is a system and method for treating headaches. The system employs a self-contained, battery operated, readily portable and easy-to-operate head-mounted magnetic depolarizer to generate a transient or time-varying high-intensity magnetic field into and around the user's head or neck. The magnetic depolarizer system can be used to depolarize the... Agent: Neuropace, Inc.

20080045777 - Electromagnetic drive for a ventricular assist device: An electromagnetic drive for use in a ventricular assist device. The electromagnetic drive provides adjustment to the device pressure according to the current through an electromagnet. The device includes a pair of U-shaped cores, each having a center section and two legs; one or more coils, each wound around a... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080045780 - Method for treating medical conditions using a microprocessor-based video game: Method for treating a medical condition in a human patient comprising choosing a psychological strategy for treating the medical condition, encoding electronic instructions for an interactive video game in such a way that the interactive video game implements the psychological strategy, loading the electronic instructions into a microprocessor-based unit (10,... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20080045782 - Floating sling for treatment of incontinence: Improved methods and apparatuses for treatment of fecal and urinary incontinence are provided. Methods of placing mesh support strips adjacent the urethra or rectum (as in positions of support for levator ani muscles) through minimal number of incisions, with minimal amount of mesh, are disclosed. Methods combining such mesh support... Agent: Ams Research Corporation

20080045783 - Multi-material incontinence treatment construction device: An implantable constriction device for treating an incontinent patient comprises an elongate composite structure adapted to constrict the urethra, urine bladder, anus, colon or rectum of the patient. The elongate composite structure is composed of a base material, such as hard silicone, making the composite structure self-supporting. Property improving means... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080045785 - High frequency operation device: A high frequency operation device comprises: a flexible sheath of an electric insulation member that is insertable into an operation device insertion channel in an endoscope; a high frequency knife mounted on the flexible sheath; and an operation section connected to the flexible sheath to project the high frequency knife... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080045786 - Rotational, translational and torqueing control members for an endoscopic instrument: A flexible endoscopic clip applier includes a flexible coil with a manual actuator coupled to one end and a jaw assembly coupled to the other end. A store of clips is arranged adjacent to the jaw assembly and a clip pusher is arranged adjacent to the store of clips. The... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20080045787 - Medical device made with a super alloy: A medical device with a shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end having an operational interface, the distal end having a working element, and the shaft may include a super alloy. In one example embodiment, the shaft may include a cobalt base alloy. In another... Agent: Ganz Law, P.C.

20080045788 - Method and device of imaging with an in vivo imager: There is provided an imager which may be used for capturing an object on only portion of its active area. This imager may further be used to capture additional optic information on one or more of its area that is unusable for the object. The additional optic information may be... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080045789 - Capsule endoscope: A capsule endoscope capable of implementing stereoscopic photography, with which protruding/recessed states are easily recognized, for a nearby subject. The capsule endoscope includes imaging devices for respectively imaging a common subject, a driving/sampling section which drives the imaging devices, focusing optical systems which correspond one-to-one with the imaging devices and... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20080045790 - Self-propellable endoscopic apparatus and method: A self propelled, endoscopic apparatus formed of a flexible, fluid-filled toroid and a motorized or powerable frame The apparatus may be used to advance a variety of accessory devices into generally tubular spaces and environments for medical and non-medical applications. The apparatus when inserted into a tubular space or environment,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080045791 - Compact gynecological observation system for examination, imaging analysis and treatment: The invention is a medical imaging device designed for insertion into the vagina for medical examination, imaging, image analysis and treatment of the interior of the vagina. The device comprises a front assembly, optimally shaped to match the shape of the vaginal canal; imaging and illumination assemblies; a handle; and... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080045792 - Body -insertable apparatus and radio in-vivo information acquiring system: A capsule endoscope 3 as an example of a body-insertable apparatus includes a battery 100, a control information detecting circuit 31 to which driving power is supplied from the battery 100, a system control circuit 32, and a driving controller 34 that is arranged between the battery 100 and the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080045793 - System and method for removing a protective cover from a medical instrument: According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for removing a cover from a medical instrument includes a flexible cover configured to cover at least a portion of a medical instrument, an insertion element coupled proximate a first end of the flexible cover, a pair of substantially parallel perforations... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080045794 - Steerable segmented endoscope and method of insertion: A steerable endoscope has an elongated body with a selectively steerable distal portion and an automatically controlled proximal portion. The endoscope body is inserted into a patient and the selectively steerable distal portion is used to select a desired path within the patient's body. When the endoscope body is advanced,... Agent: Shayglenn LLP

20080045795 - Variable shaft flexibility in endoscope: A flexible endoscope providing increased control to an operator or user, the flexible endoscope utilizing an ionic polymeric material positioned in the shaft of the endoscope, such that, upon application of an electrical current to the ionic polymeric material, the material contracts and becomes relatively rigid. The flexible endoscope may... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080045796 - Histofluorescent stain composition for endoscopy: wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydroxyl group; R3 represents a phenyl group or methyl group, to which R2c is bound; one to three of R2a, R2b and R2c represent —SO3M (wherein M represents an alkali metal atom or an alkaline earth metal atom), or —SO3NH4, and when... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080045798 - Capsule endoscope: where Ra is the radius of curvature of the object-side surface of the transparent dome, Rb is the radius of curvature of the objective-lens-side surface of the transparent dome, and L is a distance from the vertex of the object-side surface of the transparent dome to the most object-side surface... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080045797 - Endoscope attachment and endoscope: An object of the present invention is to provide an endoscope attachment which enables an endoscope to capture images of areas in front and at the sides of the endoscope. The endoscope attachment has: a transparent attaching part (100) which is used to attach the attachment to a probe of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080045799 - Multipurpose diseased tissue detection devices, systems, and methods: An autofluorescence light examination system having a plurality of modular parts includes a main body, a light source, and at least two detachable instruments. The main body is configured to deliver light to a target tissue and contains at least one optical element configured so that a user can directly... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20080045800 - Solid state illumination for endoscopy: Various embodiments for providing solid state illumination for endoscopy or borescopy are provided. Generally, various medical or industrial devices can include one or more solid state or other compact electro-optic illuminating devices located thereon. The solid state or compact electro-optic illuminating device can include, but is not limited to, a... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080045801 - Intubation laryngoscope with detachable blades: An intubation laryngoscope having reusable and disposable blades adapted for both right and left-handed operation, an illumination system mounted on the laryngoscope handle, and an improved fastening appliance for detachable connection of the blades to the laryngoscope handle.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080045802 - Medical handle device and illumination apparatus: A medical handle device having an illumination apparatus with at least one optical semiconductor component and a method for manufacturing such a hand-held device are displayed. It is proposed that in order to adapt the hand-held device to the specific requirements of a medical application such as uniformly high light... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080045803 - Procedural cannula and support system for surgical procedures using natural orifice access: A system for performing minimally invasive medical procedures through a natural orifice includes an elongate support advanceable in a flexible state through a natural orifice and through an incision in a body organ into a body cavity. The elongate support is convertible to a rigid state within the body cavity.... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20080045806 - Method to transmit physiological and biometric data of a living being: s

20080045804 - Systems, devices, and methods for interpreting movement: According to some exemplary embodiments, a method or system can involve associating a plurality of biokinetographic comparison results with a first specific dysfunction from a group of specific dysfunctions, each of the biokinetographic comparison results obtained from a comparison of a biokinetographic value to a standard for a corresponding biokinetographic... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca & Quigg, LLP

20080045812 - Bias-probe rotation test of vestibular function: Apparatus and methods for rotation test stimulus and analysis methods overcome many of the limitations of traditional clinical tests of peripheral vestibular function. An embodiment includes a rotational stimuli applied to the rotational motion for testing that includes two separate components, a bias component and a probe component. The bias... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080045809 - Devices for measurement of medical and physiological parameters using mass storage device interfaces: Medical and physiological measurement systems for diagnosis analysis are provided, in particular for sleep and blood pressure diagnosis, which are given by simple and cost efficient designs, wherein the corresponding medical devices and/or medical data interface devices are equipped with such data communication ports that they appear as mass storage... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080045811 - Disease management system and method including significant symptom filtering: A system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain health state measurements from the patient, to evaluate and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080045805 - Method and system of indicating a condition of an individual: A system and method of indicating a condition of a tested individual, wherein sounds generated during testing the individual are processed to define a match with predefined criteria, wherein at least part of the received sounds are not discernible to human ears and at least some of the sounds are... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080045810 - Sine saturation transform: A transform for determining a physiological measurement is disclosed. The transform determines a basis function index from a physiological signal obtained through a physiological sensor. A basis function waveform is generated based on basis function index. The basis function waveform is then used to determine an optimized basis function waveform.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080045807 - System and methods for evaluating and monitoring wounds: A system and methods to evaluate and monitor the healing progress of a wound. At least two optical imaging devices are mounted on a support device in order to capture images. The images are resolved in order to be matched to create a depth map of the object. The depth... Agent: Valauskas & Pine LLC

20080045808 - Textile-based electrode: Textile-based electrodes include a fabric portion having stretch-recovery non-conductive yarns and an electrically conductive region having stretch-recovery electrically conductive yarn filaments. The electrodes can further include float yarns and can be configured in a textured or ribbed construction. When incorporated into a garment, the electrodes can be used to monitor... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080045813 - Cardiac monitoring and therapy using a device for providing pressure treatment of sleep disordered breathing: A method of using CPAP equipment to sense cardiogenic oscillations in a patient's airflow, and to monitor and treat the patient's cardiac condition. The apparatus diagnoses cardiac morbidity conditions, such as the existence of arrhythmias or other cardiac abnormalities, and influences and optimizes cardiac stroke volume. The apparatus further monitors... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080045814 - Method and system for the treatment of lesions: A system and method are provided for determining a medical condition of a patient. The system and method comprise providing hemodynamic monitoring, providing stenosis monitoring, retrieving hemodynamic parameters and stenosis parameters, analyzing the hemodynamic parameters and stenosis parameters, and providing a report indicative of an integrated analysis of the hemodynamic... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080045815 - Automatic and ambulatory monitoring of congestive heart failure patients: This invention provides methods for non-invasively monitoring patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) and for reporting and/or warning of changes in the patients' status. The methods gather physiological data and combine the data into parameters by which the severity of CHF can be judged. Preferred parameters include periodic breathing and... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080045816 - Apparatus, method and medium measuring skin moisture content: An apparatus for measuring skin moisture content in a user's skin is provided. The apparatus may include a signal supplier to generate an out-of-phase signal from a voltage signal obtained from the user's skin and an in-phase signal from the voltage signal, a susceptance measurement unit to measure the susceptance... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080045817 - Apparatus and method for performing othogonal polarized spectral imaging (opsi): Provided is a method and an apparatus for detection of objects below the surface of diffuse scattering media, in particular blood capillaries in organs such as the skin of human beings, using Orthogonal Polarized Spectral Imaging (OPSI), according to the invention comprising the steps of: imaging the object in question... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080045818 - Laser vein contrast enhancer: It is known in the art to use an apparatus to enhance the visual appearance of the veins and arteries in a patient to facilitate insertion of needles into those veins and arteries. This application discloses a number of inventions that add additional data collection and presentation capabilities to a... Agent: Thomas A. O'rourke Bodner & O'rourke

20080045819 - Blood-sugar level management system: There is provided a mobile blood-sugar level measuring system enabling a diabetic patient to accurately and easily perform management of blood-sugar level measurement timing, management of changes in blood-sugar level, and further prediction of a future blood-sugar level. The blood-sugar level measuring system is formed by using a blood-sugar level... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080045820 - Method for building an algorithm for converting spectral information: A system for determining the concentration of an analyte in at least one body fluid in body tissue comprises an infrared light source, a body tissue interface, a detector, and a central processing unit. The body tissue interface is adapted to contact body tissue and to deliver light from the... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20080045821 - System for determining the concentration of an analyte: A system for determining the concentration of an analyte in at least one body fluid in body tissue comprises an infrared light source, a body tissue interface, a detector, and a central processing unit. The body tissue interface is adapted to contact body tissue and to deliver light from the... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20080045822 - Optical fibre catheter pulse oximeter: Apparatus for measuring the oxygen saturation level of blood at an internal measurement site in a human or animal patient by reflectance pulse oximetry, comprising first and second light sources (5, 10), a first optical fibre (30) for transferring light from at least one said light source to the internal... Agent: Winstead PC

20080045823 - Signal processing apparatus: The present disclosure describes a method and an apparatus for analyzing measured signals using various processing techniques. In certain embodiments, the measured signals are physiological signals. In certain embodiments, the measurements relate to blood constituent measurements including blood oxygen saturation.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080045824 - Silicone composition for biocompatible membrane: The present invention relates generally to biosensor materials. More specifically, this invention relates to a novel polymeric material that can be useful as a biocompatible membrane for use in biosensor applications.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080045825 - Condensate glucose analyzer: The present invention provides systems and methods for analyzing glucose present in exhaled breath condensate (EBC). In certain embodiments of the invention, electrochemical- or coulometric-based sensing technologies are used to analyze EBC for the presence and/or concentration of glucose.... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080045826 - Method and apparatus for visual neural stimulation: Existing epiretinal implants for the blind are designed to electrically stimulate large groups of surviving retinal neurons using a small number of electrodes with diameters of several hundred μm. To increase the spatial resolution of artificial sight, electrodes much smaller than those currently in use are desirable. In this study... Agent: Scott B. Dunbar Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.

20080045827 - Viewing system for control of ptca angiograms: A medical viewing system for processing and displaying a sequence a sequence of medical angiograms representing a balloon, moving in an artery, this system comprising extracting means for automatically extracting balloon image data in a phase of balloon expansion, and computing means for automatically defining and storing coordinates of a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080045828 - Accelerated shells trajectory mri acquisition: An MRI k-space data set is acquired using a series of shell k-space sampling trajectories of different radii. Off-resonance effects are reduced and fat-suppression can be improved by using a shorter TR for pulse sequences that sample at smaller radii. At larger radii sampling is repeated with the central axis... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080045829 - Pet-mri hybrid system: Embodiments of the present invention may provide a PET-MRI hybrid system capable of arranging a PET apparatus and an MRI apparatus in a line. An MRI room containing the MRI apparatus and a PET room containing the PET apparatus are provided at either side of a central waiting room as... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080045831 - Device for transferring a cradle for use with a medical imaging equipment: Embodiments of the present invention may provide a cradle transferring device, which moves and withdraws a cradle to and from an examination table of an MRI apparatus in a PET-MRI hybrid system. The cradle transferring device includes: a cradle, on which a subject lies; a shuttle table supporting the cradle... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080045830 - Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method: The invention relates to a Magnetic Resonance imaging apparatus having a cavity in which a body or a part of a body to be imaged can be housed and a patient support device (7), such as a patient bed, table or chair, comprising a patient supporting surface having such a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080045832 - Remote-sensing method and device: A remote-detection system is provided for monitoring changes in permittivity associated with physiological activity of a subject that is free to move. The system includes a source containing an oscillator configured to illuminate tissue of the subject with an electromagnetic signal beam. The system further includes a receiver configured to... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080045833 - Breast biopsy and needle localization using tomosynthesis systems: Methods, devices, apparatuses and systems are disclosed for performing mammography, such as utilizing tomosynthesis in combination with breast biopsy.... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080045834 - System and method for delivering fluids to a balloon catheter: A fluid delivery system includes a first pressurizing device, a second pressurizing device, a reusable fluid path for delivering fluid to multiple patients and a per-patient disposable fluid path adapted to be connected to the reusable fluid path and operable to deliver fluid media to a balloon catheter in a... Agent: Gregory L Bradley Medrad Inc

20080045835 - Enhancement of ultrasonic cavitation: The present invention is a two step method of enhancing the cavitational effect produced by ultrasound signals focused at a specific location in a medium. The first step is to use one or more transducers to apply the ultrasound signals to create a waveform that causes formation of bubbles at... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080045836 - Apparatus and method for displaying an ultrasound image: Embodiments of the present invention may provide an apparatus and a method of displaying a 3-dimensional ultrasound image formed based on 2-dimensional ultrasound images in an ultrasound diagnostic system. The method of displaying an ultrasound image in an ultrasound diagnostic system, comprises: a) forming a plurality of sequential 2-dimensional ultrasound... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080045837 - Ultrasound system and method for controlling steering angles of scan lines: An ultrasound system comprises: a probe having a transducer array of n transducer elements for transmitting ultrasound signals, said n transducer elements being associated with respective scan lines; a steering angle calculating unit for calculating steering angles of the scan lines by using series determined by a relation between the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080045838 - Ultrasonic transducer array, ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic endoscope and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus: In an ultrasonic transducer array in which plural kinds of ultrasonic transducers having different areas of ultrasonic transmission/reception surfaces are arranged, electric impedances among the ultrasonic transducers are made substantially equal. The ultrasonic transducer array, in which at least two kinds of ultrasonic transducers having different areas of ultrasonic transmission/reception... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080045839 - Determining the center of rotation of an implant: A device for determining a center of rotation of a medical implant having a spherical portion includes an abutment member, and a plurality of markers arranged in a fixed location relative to the abutment member. The abutment member includes including a first spherical surface for placing the spherical portion of... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080045840 - Optical examination device, system and method: As part of an examination device, an input or output optical coupler device for transmitting photons between an optical source or detector and an examined body part includes an array of optical fibers with end portions freely protruding as cantilevers from a support. The optical fibers have the end portions... Agent: Ivan David Zitkovsky Ph.d PC

20080045841 - Scanned laser vein contrast enhancer: The present invention is a Miniature Vein Enhancer that includes a Miniature Projection Head. The Miniature Projection Head may be operated in one of three modes, AFM, DBM, and RTM. The Miniature Projection Head of the present invention projects an image of the veins of a patient, which aids the... Agent: Thomas A. O'rourke Bodner & O'rourke, LLP

20080045842 - Conformable tissue contact catheter: The invention provides basket-style catheter probes that are configured to automatically radially expand or contract in response to widening or narrowing of a lumen so that contact with the lumen wall is maintained during probing. Related diagnostic systems and methods are also provided.... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080045843 - Via-human-body information transmission system and transmitter-receiver: An electrode (104) of a transmitter-receiver (102) contacting with or capacitance-connected to a human body (101) and an electrode (108) of a receiver (106) contacting with or capacitance-connected to the human body (101) are electrically connected through the human body (101) (mainly, a chest part and a left arm). An... Agent: Bruce L Adams Adams & Wilks

20080045844 - Method and system for cardiovascular system diagnosis: The present invention is directed to a method and system for monitoring function and/or diagnosing dysfunction of the cardiovascular system of a human subject. The method comprise measuring pulse wave signals of the subject during rapid excitation of the cardiovascular system, analyzing the measured signals and computing indicators reflecting a... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080045845 - Apparatus and computer program for determining a patient's volemic status represented by cardiopulmonary blood volume: An apparatus for determining a patient's volemic status can make use of a physiological heart-lung interaction during spontaneous breathing or mechanical ventilation. Further, a computer program for determining the patient's volemic status has instructions for carrying out the steps of generating data of a physiological heart-lung interaction during spontaneous breathing... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080045846 - Method and system of determining nibp target inflation pressure using an sp02 plethysmograph signal: A method and system for operating a non-invasive blood pressure monitor that utilizes an SpO2 plethysmograph signal to determine the initial inflation pressure for the blood pressure cuff of the NIBP monitor. A pulse sensor is placed on the patient's limb distal to the blood pressure cuff such that as... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20080045847 - Non-contact and passive measurement of arterial pulse through thermal ir imaging, and analysis of thermal ir imagery: A non-contact, passive method for measurement of arterial pulse from areas such as the major superficial arteries of the body through analysis of thermal IR images acquired by passive thermal IR imaging sensors, and through the modeling of the pulsatile nature of the blood flow and arterial pulse propagation in... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080045848 - Method and system for measuring the speed of blood flow: The invention relates to a method for measuring the speed of a particle such as a red blood cell moving inside a flow such as a flow of the blood, using a light scanning microscope. The inventive method comprises the following steps: acquisition of an image by x and y... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080045849 - Assessment of fetal reactivity by fetal heart rate analysis: The present invention relates to the field of fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring. In particular, it relates to monitoring during periods of so-called non-stationary fetal heart rate patterns, such as those that occur during labour. The invention provides an improved apparatus, method and computer program for more clear analysis of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080045850 - Implantable medical devices using heuristic filtering in cardiac event detection: Methods for performing cardiac signal analysis in an implanted medical device, and devices configured to perform illustrative methods of cardiac signal analysis. A cardiac signal is captured by an implanted device using implanted electrodes and, during at least certain conditions, the cardiac signal undergoes heuristic filtering. In some embodiments, heuristic... Agent: Ari Pramudji Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20080045851 - Methods and devices for determination of arrhythmia rate zone thresholds: Approaches for determining threshold values for one or more arrhythmia rate zones and/or the number of rate zones are described. A probability function for heart rate is determined using collected and measured heart rate values. One or more heart rate probability values are selected. Thresholds for arrhythmia rate zones are... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080045852 - Detection of congestion from monitoring patient response to a recumbent position: Systems and methods obtain information that allows detection of whether a patient suffers from congestion by monitoring a response of the patient to a recumbent position of the patient's body. The patient may be monitored to determine a respiration pattern for a non-recumbent position such as standing and a respiration... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/bsc-crm

20080045853 - Methods and devices for determining brain state: The present invention relates to methods and devices for determining the state of a neural system. In one embodiment, a plurality of stimuli to the system can be delivered to the system, and then the resulting respective responses can be analyzed to determine whether the system state is static, or... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20080045854 - Human body impedance measurement device and its application: A device for measuring human body impedance, comprising a pair of input electrodes and a pair of output electrodes, a constant-current source, a voltage measurement unit and an operation processing unit The voltage measurement unit measures the voltage generate by the current from the constant-current source passing through the human... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20080045855 - Access devices for measuring temperature of a patient: An access device such as a catheter, or introducer, or any combination of the above is provided. Within the access device is at least one lumen, channel or instrument that carries or itself is a thermally active mass, such as infusion fluids, control wires, etc. A temperature sensor such as... Agent: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

20080045856 - Apparatus and method for electrical stimulation of human retina: An apparatus and method for retinal stimulation are shown. The method comprises varied parameters, including frequency, pulse width, and pattern of pulse trains to determine a stimulation pattern and visual perception threshold.... Agent: Scott B. Dunbar Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.

20080045857 - Bone marrow aspiration devices and related methods: Various devices and methods may be provided to aspirate bone marrow from an associated bone using a powered drive and an aspiration needle or aspiration needle set. Such aspiration devices and methods may also be used in association with stem cell transplant procedures. The aspiration devices may include a coupler... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080045858 - Device for transcutaneous biopsy of tissues: Device for taking a sample of biological tissue transcutaneously, comprising: a needle arrangement having a tubular-shaped body, having an end associable with a grip and being provided with an edge free at the opposite end, lamina elements movable between a neutral position wherein they lies near said tubular-shaped body and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080045859 - Devices and methods for in-vivo pathology diagnosis: An in vivo pathology diagnosis system includes a penetrating device that is at least one of an endoscope sheath and an endoscope, the penetrating device having irrigation and working channels with openings at a distal end chamber of the device. The device is structured for penetrating tissue until the distal... Agent: Indiano Vaughan LLP

20080045860 - Biopsy devices and related methods: Apparatus and methods provided to remove biopsy specimens from bone and/or associated bone marrow. A powered driver may rotate a biopsy needle at an optimum speed to obtain the biopsy specimen. A thread or a groove may be disposed on interior portions of the biopsy needle. The thread or groove... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080045861 - Medical procedures trays and related methods: Medical procedure trays and related methods are provided to accommodate joining a first non-sterile medical device with a second sterile medical device and maintaining required sterilization of the second sterile medical device to perform an associated medical procedure. One example of such medical procedures includes biopsy of a bone and/or... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080045862 - Systems, methods, and devices for sampling bodily fluid: A fluid sampling system is disclosed comprising a fluid drawing device and a fluid sampling device. In one embodiment, the fluid drawing device comprises a venous arterial blood management protection apparatus having a housing with a fill chamber in fluid communication with a patient injection site, a piston positionable within... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080045863 - guidewire structure including a medical guidewire: A guidewire structure includes a medical guidewire and an attached guidewire anchor having collapsed and expanded states. The anchor includes struts and defines in the expanded state an open structure. Another guidewire structure includes a medical guidewire, an attached guidewire anchor having collapsed and expanded states, and an overtube. The... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20080039678 - Method and apparatus for treatment of vaginal anterior repairs: An apparatus for repairing cystocele including an adjustable support member, a pair of superior support arms continuously knitted with said support member, and a pair of inferior support arms continuously knitted with said support member, wherein the distance between the pair of superior support arms and pair of inferior support... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080039682 - Insertion assisting device: The insertion assisting device allows a penis, though having a decreased erectile function, to be inserted smoothly into a vagina and dissolves within a few minutes of insertion, so that the penis can be kept inserted in the vagina in a natural state of insertion. Thus, a good physical contact... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20080039675 - Capsule endoscope storage case: When an inner cover portion 42 is accommodated in a blister pack 41, a retention space area 40a for accommodating a capsule endoscope 2 is formed between the bottom face 42e of the inner cover portion 42 and the inside bottom face 41e2 of the blister pack 41. The capsule... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080039676 - Means and method for marking human tissue that may be malignant: Disclosed herein is a system for placing an elongated permanent magnet into a volume of tissue within a human body, including placement following a large core needle tissue biopsy procedure, where the tissue is suspected of being cancerous. The magnet's position is then detected by a magnet locating system that... Agent: Dr. Robert E. Fischell

20080039677 - Portable health device and associated methods: A portable health device comprises a housing at least one power source connected to the housing, a frequency oscillation device in communication with the power source, and at least one electromagnet carried by the housing and in communication with the at least one power source. The frequency oscillation device may... Agent: The Torpy Group, P.l.

20080039679 - Sphincteric control system: A sphincteric control system for controlling the function of a bodily organ, such as the bladder. The system comprises a first implanted sphincter (12) disposed about a portion of the bodily organ, a second implanted sphincter (13) disposed about a portion of the bodily organ, and a stimulator unit (20)... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080039680 - Process for enriching a population of sperm cells: Processes for selectively enriching a population of viable sperm cells with respect to a characteristic without physically sorting the cells are disclosed. The cells contained in such an enriched population benefit from the advantage of not being subjected to a sorting process. Processes of inseminating a female mammal and processes... Agent: Senniger Powers (mtc)

20080039681 - Shape memory devices and methods for reshaping heart anatomy: Systems, methods and devices are provided for treating heart failure patients suffering from various levels of heart dilation. Such heart dilation is treated by reshaping the heart anatomy with the use of shape memory elements. Such reshaping changes the geometry of portions of the heart, particularly the right or left... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20080039683 - Method of using thermochromic devices: A method of using a body cavity device of cylindrical, spherical, annular, or tubular form with thermochromic pigments that change color in response to temperature changes. The method can be used to induce stimulation within a body cavity and to discern the temperature within.... Agent: Bert P. Krages Ii Attorney At Law

20080039684 - High flow stone basket system: A medical device for viewing inside a body and for retrieving an object from a location within the body, the medical device comprising an endoscope having a tube defining a working channel and a basket engageable with the object. In one embodiment of the invention, the basket does not require... Agent: Applied Medical Resources Corporation

20080039685 - Endoscope system: An endoscope system comprises multiple types of treatment tools including a treatment-tool insertion unit, and a function unit having a function for performing treatment; an electrically-driven operation device which electrically drives the function unit; an electrically-driven advance/retreat device which electrically drives the treatment-tool insertion unit; a control device including at... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080039686 - Electronic endoscope apparatus and electronic endoscope system: An electronic endoscope apparatus has a distal part, an imaging unit, a light emitting unit, and a transmitting unit. The imaging unit converts light applied to the distal part, into an electrical signal. The light emitting unit converts the electrical signal supplied from the imaging unit, into an optical signal.... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080039688 - Body-insertable apparatus system: A body-insertable apparatus system includes a body-insertable apparatus introduced into a subject to acquire intra-subject information while moving inside the subject; and a position detecting apparatus detecting a position of the body-insertable apparatus inside the subject. The position detecting apparatus includes a magnetic field generator that generates a position detecting... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080039687 - Radio intra-subject information acquiring system: A capsule endoscope 2 that picks up images within a body cavity and a receiving device 3 that has a function of radio transmission and reception to and from the capsule endoscope 2 are provided. A display device 4 that displays a body cavity image based on data received by... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080039689 - Endoscope, endoscope apparatus, and method of connecting external equipment to endoscope: An endoscope according to an aspect of the invention includes an image pickup connector portion projecting from one end side of an endoscope connector and connected to a first electrical contact of a video processor, and a magnification change connector portion projecting from the other end side of the endoscope... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080039690 - Steerable multi linked device having multiple working ports: A steerable multi-linked device. The device includes a first multi-linked mechanism and a second multi-linked mechanism. The first mechanism defines a first plurality of grooves. The second mechanism defines a second plurality of grooves. The first and second pluralities of grooves cooperate to define at least two working ports along... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080039691 - Torque-transmitting, variably-flexible, corrugated insertion device and method for transmitting torque and variably flexing a corrugated insertion device: A torque-transmitting, variably-flexible, corrugated insertion device includes a hollow body having a proximal end with an entrance for receiving an instrument and a distal end with a tip for protrusion of the instrument. A vacuum-activated device transitions the hollow body between a relatively flexible condition and a relatively stiff condition.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080039692 - Image display device: A device for displaying in vivo images picked up inside a subject in a time series. The device automatically detects lesion images contained in all in vivo images picked up over the time series. The device displays an elongated display area having a time scale assigned along a longitudinal direction... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080039693 - Endoscope tip unit and endoscope with scanning optical fiber: An endoscope has an insertion portion and a tip unit detachably attached to a distal end of the insertion portion. The insertion portion is configured to be inserted into an object, and has a signal cable and a first optical fiber extending therethrough. The tip unit has a second optical... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080039694 - Endoscopic imaging apparatus and capsule-type endoscope: An endoscopic imaging includes an image sensor having a polygonal outline; a lens for focusing an image onto the image sensor; a lens support member abutting on the image sensor, and supporting the lens; and an abutting portion formed while extending from a lower edge portion of the lens support... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080039695 - Fluorescence endoscope system, fluoroscopy apparatus, fluoroscopy method, fluorescence-information processing apparatus, and fluorescence-information processing method: The invention provides a fluorescence endoscope system, a fluoroscopy apparatus, a fluoroscopy method, a fluorescence-information processing apparatus, and a fluorescence-information processing method which allow superior fluoroscopy by reducing the effect of autofluorescence. Provided are an excitation-light radiating part for irradiating an object under examination in a body cavity with excitation... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080039696 - Endoscope system: Spectral characteristics are controlled with high accuracy using a variable-spectrum device provided at the tip of a long insertion portion of an endoscope, thereby acquiring a sharp observation image. An endoscope system, at least a portion of which is to be inserted into the body cavity of a living organism... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080039697 - Endoscope system: The invention provides an endoscope system, a portion of which is adapted to be inserted inside a body cavity of a living organism for acquiring images of an acquisition target inside the body cavity, including a light source unit for selectively emitting excitation light with different spectral characteristics; an image... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080039698 - Cognitive processing: Methods for the determination of cognitive processing of an individual or groups of individuals are described. Deviation from a control range of cognitive processing is determined with reference to a standardized task. Methods comprise measurement of time to complete the standardized task in a group of control subjects, measurement of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080039699 - Medical measuring device: The invention relates to a medical measuring device (10) comprising at least one measuring apparatus (12, 14), which has at least one sensor (16, 18) for generating a measuring signal of a patient (20, 22). A measuring data detection device (24) is also provided, which is designed to exchange measuring... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080039701 - Dual-mode pulse oximeter: A portable stand alone patient monitor is dockable with a docking station attached to a patient bed. The portable monitor is configured to operate in a stand alone mode and a docked mode. The docking station can include a second local monitor.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080039700 - Hydration monitoring: Systems and techniques for monitoring hydration. In one implementation, a method includes measuring an electrical impedance of a region of a subject to generate an impedance measurement result, and wirelessly transmitting the data to a remote apparatus. The probe with which impedance is measured may in the form of a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080039702 - Method and system for providing calibration of an analyte sensor in an analyte monitoring system: Method and apparatus for providing calibration of analyte sensor including applying a control signal, detecting a measured response to the control signal, determining a variance in the detected measured response, and estimating a sensor sensitivity based on the variance in the detected measured response is provided... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080039703 - Sensor: A physiological sensing device comprises an electrical sensor (4) for insertion into the tissue of a live animal and which measures the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the animal tissue. The device also includes an electrical cable (6) connected electrically at its distal end to the sensor (4). The... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080039704 - Calibration of analyte measurement device: A calibration system suitable for calibrating non-invasive glucose concentration measurement systems includes one or more continuous glucose measurement devices with the ability to make continuous glucose concentration measurements at multiple regions. The system can accumulate measurement data over period of time and can process the accumulated measurement data to generate... Agent: Josh Hogan

20080039706 - Intensity-based image registration using earth mover's distance: A method of aligning image having the steps of obtaining a first image, the first image having a corresponding first data set, obtaining a second image, the second having a corresponding second data set; learning a joint intensity distribution from a pair of prealigned images, and aligning the first image... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080039705 - Map based intuitive device control and sensing to navigate a medical device: A method is provided for adjusting a medical device given an image of the device position relative to an anatomical surface shown on a two-dimensional display, that includes using a user-input device to indicate a direction of adjustment of the device relative to the display.... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080039707 - Medical image management method for managing medical images, and medical image management apparatus and report preparation method using the same: A first storage stores a first medical image, positional information in the first medical image and regional information corresponding to the positional information, respectively. A second storage stores second medical images. A display unit displays the first medical image and the second medical images stored in the second storage. A... Agent: Thomas Spinelli Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20080039708 - Apparatus and method for assessing body composition: A method for analyzing composition of a human body includes inducing a substantially homogeneous static magnetic field in the entire body. A substantially homogeneous radio frequency magnetic field is induced in the entire body so as to induce nuclear magnetic resonance effects in the body. Nuclear magnetic resonance signals emanating... Agent: Richard A. Fagin

20080039709 - Implantable mri compatible stimulation leads and antennas and related systems and methods: In vivo medical stimulation probes include an elongate lead having at least one stimulation electrode disposed on a distal portion thereof. The probes may include a plurality of axially spaced apart RF chokes disposed on and/or in an axially extending shielding layer of the lead in advance of the at... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080039711 - Registering mr patient data on the basis of generic models: A method for registering a non-patient-characteristic three-dimensional magnetic resonance data set (MR data set) to patient-characteristic data includes: producing or providing a non-patient-characteristic three-dimensional generic model of a body or body part containing body structure data; ascertaining or providing two-dimensional patient-characteristic detection data of a patient; using a transformation protocol... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brainlab)

20080039710 - Systems and methods using nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr) spectroscopy to evaluate pain and degenerative properties of tissue