Apparatus and method for ultrasonic medical device with improved visibility in imaging procedures
    2.
    发明授权
    Apparatus and method for ultrasonic medical device with improved visibility in imaging procedures 失效
    超声波医疗设备的装置和方法,具有改进的成像过程中的可见性

    公开(公告)号:US06730048B1

    公开(公告)日:2004-05-04

    申请号:US10328202

    申请日:2002-12-23

    IPC分类号: A61B1722

    摘要: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for an ultrasonic medical device with improved visibility in imaging procedures. A medical device comprises an elongated probe having a material of high radiopacity at an at least one predetermined location of the probe wherein the material of high radiopacity is capable of withstanding series of vibrations of the elongated probe. The material of high radiopacity allows the elongated probe to be visualized in imaging procedures when the probe is inserted into a body. The present invention provides a method of improving the visibility of an ultrasonic medical device during a medical procedure by engaging a material of high radiopacity to a small diameter elongated probe wherein the material of high radiopacity engages the probe at an at least one predetermined location.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供一种超声波医疗装置的装置和方法,其具有改进的成像过程中的可见性。 医疗装置包括在探针的至少一个预定位置处具有高射线不透性材料的细长探针,其中高不透射线材料能够承受细长探针的一系列振动。 高射线不透射线的材料允许细长的探针在成像过程中可视化,当探针插入体内时。 本发明提供了一种在医疗过程中通过将高辐射不透性材料接合到小直径细长探针来提高超声波医疗装置的可视性的方法,其中高射线不透性材料在至少一个预定位置处接合探针。

    Method of using a clot capture coil

    公开(公告)号:US06692509B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-02-17

    申请号:US10234589

    申请日:2002-09-03

    IPC分类号: A61B1722

    摘要: A clot and foreign body removal device is described which comprises a catheter with at least one lumen. Located within the catheter is a clot capture coil that is connected to an insertion mandrel. In one embodiment, the clot capture coil is made out of a solid elastic or superelastic material which has shape memory, preferably nitinol. The elasticity or superelasticity of the coil allows it to be deformed within the catheter and to then reform its original coil configuration when the coil is moved outside of the catheter lumen. In another embodiment the coil is a biphasic coil which changes shape upon heating or passing an electric current. Once the coil configuration has been established, the coil can be used to ensnare and corkscrew a clot in a vessel. A clot is extracted from the vessel by moving the clot capture coil and catheter proximally until the clot can be removed or released into a different vessel that does not perfuse a critical organ. Foreign bodies are similarly captured by deploying the coil distal to the foreign body and moving the clot capture coil proximally until the foreign body is trapped within the coil. By removing the device from the body, the foreign material is also removed.

    Grasping device and method of use
    5.
    发明授权
    Grasping device and method of use 有权
    抓握装置及使用方法

    公开(公告)号:US06679893B1

    公开(公告)日:2004-01-20

    申请号:US09715667

    申请日:2000-11-16

    申请人: Quang Q. Tran

    发明人: Quang Q. Tran

    IPC分类号: A61B1722

    CPC分类号: A61B17/221 A61B2017/2215

    摘要: The invention is directed to a grasping device and system and the method of using the device and system for capturing a thromboembolism and other objects or masses within a patient's body lumen, particularly from within a patient's cerebral blood vessels. The grasping device has an elongated core member with a grasping assembly of arms on the distal end of the core member which have an expanded and a contracted configuration. The expanded configuration permits the arms to surround an object such as a thrombus or clot and a contracted configuration to grasp or capture the object. The distal ends of the arms are provided with object grasping members such as one or more teeth to facilitate the capture and removal of the object. A delivery catheter and a shorter guide catheter aid in delivering the grasping device to the desired intravascular location within the patient.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种抓握装置和系统,以及使用该装置和系统用于捕获患者体腔内的血栓栓塞和其它物体或质量的方法,特别是在患者的脑血管内。 所述把持装置具有细长的芯部件,所述细长的芯部件具有在所述芯部件的远端上具有伸缩和收缩构造的臂的夹持组件。 扩展的配置允许臂围绕诸如血栓或血块的物体和收缩构型以抓住或捕获物体。 臂的远端设置有诸如一个或多个齿的对象抓握构件,以便于捕获和移除物体。 输送导管和较短导向导管有助于将抓握装置输送到患者内期望的血管内位置。

    Apparatus for removing plaque from blood vessels using ultrasonic energy
    6.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for removing plaque from blood vessels using ultrasonic energy 有权
    使用超声能量从血管中除去斑块的装置

    公开(公告)号:US06660013B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-12-09

    申请号:US09972555

    申请日:2001-10-05

    IPC分类号: A61B1722

    摘要: A method and apparatus for removing plaque, fatty deposits, and other occlusions from blood vessels using ultrasonic energy. The method and apparatus has particular application in removing plaque from the carotid artery in a non-thermal manner. The apparatus is designed to have as small a cross-sectional profile as possible, therefore allowing the apparatus to be used in a minimally-invasive manner. As a result, the apparatus can be used in both surgical and outpatient treatment with minimal post-operative complications and minimal damage to areas other than the area of treatment. An ultrasonic probe may include aspiration channels on its outer surface. An aspiration sheath may surround the ultrasonic probe, such that the location of an aspiration port may be varied axially relative to the ultrasonic tip.

    摘要翻译: 一种使用超声能量从血管中去除斑块,脂肪沉积物和其他闭塞的方法和装置。 该方法和装置特别适用于以非热方式从颈动脉中去除斑块。 该设备被设计成具有尽可能小的横截面轮廓,因此允许以微创方式使用该装置。 因此,该装置可以用于手术和门诊治疗,并且手术并发症最少,并且对治疗面积以外的区域的损害最小。 超声探头可以包括其外表面上的抽吸通道。 吸入鞘可以围绕超声波探头,使得吸入口的位置可以相对于超声波尖端轴向变化。

    Articulating stone basket
    7.
    发明授权
    Articulating stone basket 有权
    铰链石篮

    公开(公告)号:US06652537B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-11-25

    申请号:US10020797

    申请日:2001-12-12

    IPC分类号: A61B1722

    摘要: A medical retrieval device includes a handle and a hollow sheath extending forward from the handle. A slide is attached to the handle for longitudinal movement along a path between a rearward location and a forward location. A rotary actuator having an axis of rotation generally transverse to the path of movement of the slide is mounted to the slide for rotational movement with respect thereto. A basket having at least three legs is located at a forward end of the sheath. Two adjacent basket legs are connected to a first side of the rotary actuator, and the remaining basket legs are connected to the opposite side of the rotary actuator such that rotation of the rotary actuator displaces the two legs in a first direction with respect to the sheath and displaces the remainder of the legs in a direction opposite the first direction. The basket is retracted within a forward portion of the sheath when the slide is in the rearward location, and the basket is extended forward of the forward end of the sheath when the slide is in the forward location. Thus longitudinal movement of the slide extends and retracts the basket, and rotation of the rotary actuator articulates the basket.

    摘要翻译: 医疗检索装置包括手柄和从手柄向前延伸的中空护套。 滑块附接到手柄以沿着向后位置和向前位置之间的路径的纵向运动。 具有大致横向于滑动件的运动路径的旋转轴线的旋转致动器被安装到滑动件上以相对于滑动件旋转运动。 具有至少三条腿的篮子位于护套的前端。 两个相邻的篮子腿连接到旋转致动器的第一侧,并且剩余的篮子腿连接到旋转致动器的相对侧,使得旋转致动器的旋转相对于护套沿第一方向移动两个腿 并沿与第一方向相反的方向移动剩余的腿部。 当滑动件处于向后位置时,篮子在护套的前部中缩回,并且当滑块位于向前位置时,篮子从护套的前端向前延伸。 因此,滑动件的纵向运动使篮子延伸和缩回,并且旋转致动器的旋转铰接篮。

    Atherectomy device
    8.
    发明授权
    Atherectomy device 有权
    动脉粥样斑块切除装置

    公开(公告)号:US06579299B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-06-17

    申请号:US09782975

    申请日:2001-02-14

    IPC分类号: A61B1722

    摘要: A surgical apparatus for removing deposits from an interior of a vessel comprising a rotatable shaft and a rotatable tip mounted to the rotatable shaft which is rotatable about its longitudinal axis upon rotation of the shaft to remove deposits from the interior of the vessel. The tip has a distal portion, a proximal portion and an intermediate portion between the distal and proximal portions. The intermediate portion is defined by a plurality of transverse cross-sectional areas, wherein each transverse cross-sectional area defines first and second axes substantially perpendicular to each other to define a width dimension along a first axis and a height dimension along the second axis. The height dimension is greater than the width dimension.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于从容器内部去除沉积物的手术装置,包括可旋转轴和安装到可旋转轴的可旋转尖端,所述可转动的轴在轴的旋转时可围绕其纵向轴线旋转以从容器的内部移除沉积物。 尖端具有远侧部分,近端部分和远端部分和近端部分之间的中间部分。 中间部分由多个横截面区域限定,其中每个横截面区域限定彼此基本垂直的第一和第二轴线,以限定沿着第一轴线的宽度尺寸和沿第二轴线的高度尺寸。 高度尺寸大于宽度尺寸。

    Eccentric rotational atherectomy device
    10.
    发明授权
    Eccentric rotational atherectomy device 失效
    偏心旋切术装置

    公开(公告)号:US06494890B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-12-17

    申请号:US08911586

    申请日:1997-08-14

    IPC分类号: A61B1722

    摘要: A rotational atherectomy device having a flexible, elongated, rotatable drive shaft with an eccentric enlarged diameter section. At least part of the eccentric enlarged diameter section has a tissue removing surface. The eccentric enlarged diameter section of the drive shaft has a center of mass and/or geometric center spaced radially from the rotational axis of the drive shaft, facilitating the ability of the device to open the stenotic lesion to a diameter substantially larger than the outer diameter of the enlarged diameter section.

    摘要翻译: 一种具有柔性,细长的,可旋转的驱动轴的旋转粥样斑块切除装置,其具有偏心的扩大直径部分。 偏心扩大直径部分的至少一部分具有组织去除表面。 驱动轴的偏心扩大直径部分具有与驱动轴的旋转轴线径向间隔的质心和/或几何中心,有助于该装置将狭窄病变打开的直径大致大于外径 的直径增大。