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Surgery > Diagnostic Testing > Detecting Nuclear, Electromagnetic, Or Ultrasonic Radiation > Detectable Material Placed In Body > Using Flexible Catheter

Using Flexible Catheter

Using Flexible Catheter patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

01/04/07 - 20070004981 - Interventional instrument with marking element
To make interventional instruments such as catheters more easily identifiable in X-ray images, the catheters are provided with marking elements which can be recognized in the X-ray image. Examples of marking elements are sphere-shaped and ring-shaped marking elements, the ring-shaped marking elements being able to identify the catheters in the ...

10/26/06 - 20060241418 - Electronic endoscope system
An electronic endoscope system has a personal computer, an adjustment monitor and an adjustment processor unit. The personal computer is for changing parameters related to image quality of an endoscopic image. The adjustment monitor displays an adjustment screen, showing information of the parameters, synthesized on an endoscopic image. The adjustment ...

10/26/06 - 20060241417 - Transesophageal ultrasound probe having a rotating endoscope shaft
A transesophageal ultrasound probe for imaging internal structures via an imaging element located on the distal end of a rotating endoscope shaft. The probe includes a rotating endoscope having an imaging element mounted on the distal end of the rotating endoscope shaft. The probe also includes a control handle for ...

08/03/06 - 20060173299 - Systems and methods for improved three-dimensional imaging of a body lumen
The systems and methods described herein provide for the improved three-dimensional imaging of the an internal body lumen of a living being. A medical imaging system is provided which can include an image processing system and a medical imaging device. The medical imaging device can be insertable into the internal ...

08/03/06 - 20060173298 - Intracardiac catheter and method of use
The invention provides a cardiac balloon catheter and methods of using the same in the process of venography in the coronary sinus and pulmonary vein of the heart. The catheter has a flexible body containing a curved distal portion, at least three lumens running the length of the body each ...

06/01/06 - 20060116574 - Extended-coverage imaging coil
Extended-coverage magnetic resonance imaging coils with optimized homogeneity in longitudinal sensitivity are described. One exemplary coil includes four elements, where two of the elements are opposed-solenoid imaging elements and two of the elements are single loop imaging elements. ...

04/20/06 - 20060084866 - Expanding imaging probe
An imaging probe for imaging inside a cavity surrounded by a wall, the probe comprising: a) a probe body having a contracted state and an expanded state; and b) at least two imaging sensors, mounted on the probe body and having fields of view in different directions; wherein, when the ...

02/16/06 - 20060036167 - Vascular image processing
A method of estimating a position of a foreign object in the body, comprising: (a) providing a 3D data set of at least one blood vessel; (b) acquiring at least one 2D projection image of the vessel including the object; (c) registering the 2D projection image of the vessel to ...

02/16/06 - 20060036166 - System and method for determining path lengths through a body lumen
A system and method for determining the path length through a body lumen, for example to a specified location, is described. A location detection system may identify the location in space of an in-vivo device over time. A path-length detection unit may use data from the location detection system to ...

12/08/05 - 20050273006 - Heart wall ablation/mapping catheter and method
Steerable electrophysiology catheters for use in mapping and/or ablation of accessory pathways in myocardial tissue of the heart wall and methods of use thereof are disclosed. The catheter comprises a catheter body and handle, the catheter body having a proximal section and a distal section and manipulators that enable the ...

11/24/05 - 20050261580 - System and method for graphically representing anatomical orifices and vessels
Methods and systems are provided for generating graphical representations of orifices and vessels. One method comprises generating a representation of the surface (e.g., an endocardial surface) within a coordinate system, and laterally moving the distal end of an elongated probe within an orifice (e.g., a valve or a vessel ostium) ...

11/10/05 - 20050251032 - Intravascular antenna
The present invention relates to an elongate intravascular device adapted to be advanced through a vessel of a subject. The present invention further includes an antenna which is disposed on an inflatable member such that the antenna can be increased or decreased in size to more accurately tune the system ...

11/10/05 - 20050251031 - Apparatus and construction for intravascular device
An intravascular device includes alternating conductive and dielectric layers and an electrically conductive coil in a configuration that effects an impedance-matching circuit. Another embodiment of an intravascular device has cylindrical inner and outer walls formed of an expandable, electrically conductive material, the inner and outer walls being separated by a ...

11/03/05 - 20050245822 - Method and apparatus for imaging distant anatomical structures in intra-cardiac ultrasound imaging
An intra-cardiac imaging system that includes an ultrasound catheter that can image the left heart from within the right heart. The catheter has a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending therebetween. The distal end includes an acoustic window longitudinally oriented and having a length of at least ...

10/13/05 - 20050228274 - Catheter device
Catheter device, comprising a catheter (2) for introduction into a hollow organ, especially a vessel, with a number of bending elements (12, 12a-12f, 12a′-12e′) arranged around the longitudinal axis of the catheter and distributed over at least a part of the catheter length, which can be activated separately for a ...

08/25/05 - 20050187467 - Catheter
Catheter for inserting into a hollow organ, in particular a blood vessel, wherein at least one tube- or balloon-like flexural element (12, 12a, . . . , 12l) which can be filled with a filling medium is provided inside the catheter, which flexural element is flexible in the non-pressurized state ...



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