摘要:
A balloon catheter of novel configuration, which is capable of both efficiently heating a heating element by using a laser light and of ensuring durability by avoiding the laser light directly heating members other than the heating element. Provided is a balloon catheter with a balloon disposed in a distal end section of a shaft and wherein: a tightly wound coil shaped heating element is housed and arranged in the balloon; an optical fiber that irradiates a laser light inside the heating element is disposed; and a supply path that supplies a fluid to inside the balloon through an inside of the heating element and a discharge path that discharges the fluid from inside the balloon through a discharge port positioned on an outside of the heating element are disposed.
摘要:
To provide a device and method for closing a sheath removal hole formed for introducing a vessel catheter by laser welding when diagnosis or treatment inside a blood vessel is performed by means of the catheter. The device for closing the sheath removal hole formed in the wall of the blood vessel by laser welding, comprising welding laser generating means, means for transmitting the welding laser, and means for monitoring the position of an end of the welding laser transmitting means, wherein the welding laser is radiated when the end of the welding laser transmitting means is located in the vessel wall.
摘要:
A balloon catheter of novel configuration, which is capable of both efficiently heating a heating element by using a laser light and of ensuring durability by avoiding the laser light directly heating members other than the heating element. Provided is a balloon catheter with a balloon disposed in a distal end section of a shaft and wherein: a tightly wound coil shaped heating element is housed and arranged in the balloon; an optical fiber that irradiates a laser light inside the heating element is disposed; and a supply path that supplies a fluid to inside the balloon through an inside of the heating element and a discharge path that discharges the fluid from inside the balloon through a discharge port positioned on an outside of the heating element are disposed.
摘要:
To provide a laser therapy apparatus that is capable of determining a contact state between a tip portion of a laser catheter and a tissue, which includes a buried state of the tip portion in the tissue, a laser therapy system, and a determination method.
摘要:
A thin tube is provided that is inserted into a lumen of a living body so as to be used, which can detect the flexed direction of the forward end of itself with the use of a sensor disposed at such forward end upon light irradiation. The forward end of the thin tube is allowed to be flexed to a desired direction with the use of an actuator disposed at such forward end. Such thin tube for medical use is inserted into the lumen of a living body so as to be used for internal observation or internal treatment and contains a device for sensing light irradiation and/or an actuator that is operated via light irradiation at its forward end and a light transmission means, such light transmission means being used for irradiating the device and/or the actuator with light and such device or actuator functioning for monitoring and/or controlling the degree of flection of the forward end of such thin tube, is provided.
摘要:
The invention provides PDT equipment which can absolutely treat the deep lesioned part with preserving the superficial membrane of the healthy region. Photodynamic therapy equipment 1 for treating lesioned part by using a photosensitive substance, which is activated by the light having a peak intensity of a predetermined range but is almost not activated by the light having the peak intensity out of the predetermined range, equipped with an irradiation means 13 irradiating into the body a pulsed light of the wavelength having the potential for activating the photosensitive substance, and a control means 22 controlling the peak intensity of the light irradiated by the irradiation means, and the control means 22 allows the irradiation means 13 to irradiate the light having the high peak intensity in order that the light arriving at the deep-lying lesioned part 41 is to achieve the peak intensity of the predetermined range.
摘要:
A fluororesin tube body (10) of an endoscope flexible tube (1) is small in diameter and thin in wall thickness to such a degree that it is difficult to maintain its cross-sectional shape by itself when the flexible tube (1) is bent to the limit. A braid (20) woven from a plurality of flat bands (21) to form a tubular shape is disposed around the tube body (10). The mesh openings of the braid (20) are filled with filling adhesive (30), which bonds the tube body (10) and the braid (20) together. The filling adhesive (30) has enough elasticity to allow deformation of the braid (20) during the bending operation and enough adhesive strength to maintain the bond between the tube body (10) and the braid (20) even when the filling adhesive (30) is elastically deformed. Consequently, the braid (20) restricts the cross-sectional deformation of the tube body (10). Thus, the limit curvature of the flexible tube (1) can be increased.
摘要:
A photodynamic therapy apparatus as a determining apparatus is the photodynamic therapy apparatus for irradiating a tissue having absorbed photo-sensitive pharmaceutical, the photo-sensitive pharmaceutical absorbing an excitation light and emitting fluorescence, or a tissue absorbing the excitation light and emitting fluorescence, with the excitation light emitted from a tip portion of a laser catheter, including a connector, a light source, and a light detection unit. The laser catheter is capable of being attached/detached to/from the connector. The light source outputs the excitation light to the laser catheter via the connector. The light detection unit detects intensity or a spectrum of the fluorescence, the fluorescence being entered from the laser catheter via the connector, to determine whether the tip portion of the laser catheter contacts the tissue or not.
摘要:
This invention provides a method and a system for preventing charring at a laser beam emitting site during treatment or diagnosis using a laser catheter for applying a laser beam. The method is intended to control laser beam irradiation of an apparatus equipped with a laser catheter comprising a laser beam transmission means and a laser beam emitting site used for diagnosis or treatment with the irradiation of the inside of a blood vessel or heart cavity with a laser beam. The method for controlling laser beam irradiation is intended to prevent blood charring at a laser emission site of an apparatus equipped with a laser catheter, and the method comprises a step of controlling a laser beam output in accordance with temporal changes in the intensity of the diffuse reflected light beam by erythrocytes applied to the inside of a blood vessel or heart cavity.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a cancer-cell-specific polymer compound containing a photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy and having a surface to which an antibody against a cancer-cell-specific antigen binds. An object of the present invention is to provide a photodynamic therapeutic agent that can reach the cancer tissue at a low concentration via active targeting and makes complications (e.g., sunlight hypersensitivity) associated with photodynamic therapy unlikely to occur.