Magnetic medical devices with changeable magnetic moments and method of navigating magnetic medical devices with changeable magnetic moments
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    发明授权
    Magnetic medical devices with changeable magnetic moments and method of navigating magnetic medical devices with changeable magnetic moments 失效
    具有可变磁矩的磁性医疗设备和导航具有可变磁矩的磁性医疗设备的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06786219B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-09-07

    申请号:US10167093

    申请日:2002-06-10

    IPC分类号: A61B1900

    摘要: A method of navigating a medical device having a changeable magnetic moment within an operating region within a patient, the method includes applying a navigating magnetic field to the operating region with an external source magnet, and changing the direction of the magnetic moment in the medical device to change the orientation of the medical device in a selected direction within the operating region. The magnet moment of the medical device can be created by one or more electromagnet coils, in which case the magnetic moment can be changed by changing the current to the coil. Alternatively, the magnetic moment of the medical device can be created by one or more permanent magnets, in which case the magnetic moment can be changed by mechanically or magnetically manipulating the permanent magnet.

    摘要翻译: 一种在患者体内的操作区域内导航具有可变磁矩的医疗装置的方法,所述方法包括:利用外部源磁体对操作区域施加导航磁场,并改变医疗装置中的磁矩方向 以在操作区域内沿所选择的方向改变医疗装置的方向。 医疗装置的磁矩可以由一个或多个电磁线圈产生,在这种情况下,可以通过改变线圈的电流来改变磁矩。 或者,医疗装置的磁矩可以由一个或多个永磁体产生,在这种情况下,可以通过机械或磁力操纵永久磁铁来改变磁矩。

    Thermal and stress mapping of body lumens

    公开(公告)号:US06203508B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-03-20

    申请号:US08951769

    申请日:1997-10-16

    IPC分类号: A61B503

    CPC分类号: A61B5/1076 A61M25/10

    摘要: The inventive method requires advancing a three-dimensional imaging balloon catheter to the site of a lesion to be imaged, inflating or molding the balloon to image the lesion, deflating the balloon, withdrawing the catheter from the body lumen and re-inflating the balloon which reassumes its memorized shape. Stress and thermal mapping of the balloon is then done by direct observation or by numerical analysis of the material strain and color of the re-inflated 3D imaging balloon.

    Perfusion balloon catheter with radioactive source
    68.
    发明授权
    Perfusion balloon catheter with radioactive source 失效
    灌注气囊导管放射源

    公开(公告)号:US6117065A

    公开(公告)日:2000-09-12

    申请号:US103595

    申请日:1998-06-24

    IPC分类号: A61M36/04 A61N5/10 A61M29/00

    摘要: A device for irradiating human vessel interior walls including a perfusion balloon catheter having a radioactive perfusion tube affixed therein. Preferably, the balloon is helical, having adjacent helical strand windings closely spaced in contact upon inflation to minimize trapped blood and reduce attenuation. The perfusion tube can be made radioactive by inclusion of a helical, radioactive metal coil in the perfusion tube wall. In use, the catheter can be advanced over a guide wire to a stenosis, inflated to dilate the site, with beta radiation from the coil passing through the device to the vessel walls, relatively unhindered by blood.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于照射人体血管内壁的装置,包括具有固定在其中的放射性灌注管的灌注球囊导管。 优选地,气囊是螺旋形的,其具有在充气时紧密间隔开的相邻螺旋线圈绕组以最小化被捕获的血液并减少衰减。 灌注管可以通过在灌注管壁中包含螺旋放射性金属线圈而被制成放射性。 在使用中,导管可以在导丝上前进到狭窄,充气以扩张部位,来自线圈的β辐射通过装置到血管壁,相对不受血液阻碍。