Systems and methods for harvesting, storing, and implanting hair grafts
    1.
    发明授权
    Systems and methods for harvesting, storing, and implanting hair grafts 有权
    用于收获,储存和植入头发移植物的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08951267B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-02-10

    申请号:US13541527

    申请日:2012-07-03

    摘要: A system and method for harvesting, storing, and implanting biological units, in particular hair follicular units (FUs). The system is particularly useful to facilitate hair transplant procedures. FUs are harvested from a body surface, either attached to a patient or in a strip of removed tissue, and shuttled into a cartridge having a plurality of receptacles. The receptacles are open in a distal direction toward a removal tool, but a cover over the proximal ends of the receptacles prevents the FUs from continuing out of the cartridge. One way to shuttle the FUs is to provide a pressure differential, such as by applying suction to the proximal end of a receptacle. The shuttle subsystem may be incorporated within an overall automated or robotic system, or the shuttle subsystem may form part of a semi-automated or even manual apparatus.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于收获,储存和植入生物单位,特别是毛囊单位(FU)的系统和方法。 该系统特别有助于头发移植手术。 FU从身体表面收获,附接到患者或去除组织的条带,并穿梭到具有多个容器的药筒中。 插座沿远端方向朝向拆卸工具打开,但是在插座的近端上方的盖子防止了FU从盒中延伸出来。 穿梭FU的一种方式是提供压力差,例如通过将吸力施加到容器的近端。 穿梭子系统可以并入整体自动化或机器人系统中,或者梭子系统可以形成半自动或甚至手动装置的一部分。

    Tensioning device and method for hair transplantation
    2.
    发明授权
    Tensioning device and method for hair transplantation 有权
    张力装置和头发移植方法

    公开(公告)号:US08465498B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-06-18

    申请号:US12688395

    申请日:2010-01-15

    IPC分类号: A61B17/50

    摘要: A device and method for applying tension to an area of skin, in particular for follicular unit removal and/or implantation in a hair transplantation procedure, is provided. The tensioning device comprises at least one body surface grabber capable of engaging the body surface, and the tensioning device is configured to be able to create tension on a body or skin surface by simply displacing the tensioning device as a whole in one general direction. The tensioning device may be secured, for example, to a patient chair.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于向皮肤区域施加张力的装置和方法,特别是用于毛发移植过程中的滤泡单元去除和/或植入。 张紧装置包括能够接合身体表面的至少一个身体表面抓取器,并且张紧装置构造成能够通过简单地将张紧装置作为整体在一个大体方向上移位而在身体或皮肤表面上产生张力。 张紧装置可以例如被固定到病人椅子上。

    Follicular unit removal tool with pivoting retention member
    3.
    发明授权
    Follicular unit removal tool with pivoting retention member 有权
    具有枢转保持构件的滤泡单元拆卸工具

    公开(公告)号:US08298246B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-10-30

    申请号:US12752889

    申请日:2010-04-01

    IPC分类号: A61B17/50

    摘要: Tools and methods are provided for removing follicular units from a body surface while improving retention of the follicular units in the removal tool. The removal tool is configured to accommodate a retention member. The retention member may comprise pivotally movable elements which retain the follicular unit in the removal tool. The described tools and methods are especially useful for harvesting follicular units from a body surface in a hair transplantation process.

    摘要翻译: 提供了用于从身体表面去除滤泡单元的工具和方法,同时改善了去除工具中滤泡单元的保留。 移除工具被配置为容纳保持构件。 保持构件可以包括将滤泡单元保持在移除工具中的可枢转地移动的元件。 所描述的工具和方法对于在毛发移植过程中从身体表面收获滤泡单元特别有用。

    Systems and methods for harvesting, storing, and implanting hair grafts
    4.
    发明授权
    Systems and methods for harvesting, storing, and implanting hair grafts 有权
    用于收获,储存和植入头发移植物的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08211134B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-07-03

    申请号:US12194370

    申请日:2008-08-19

    IPC分类号: A61B17/50

    摘要: A system and method for harvesting, storing, and implanting biological units, in particular hair follicular units (FUs). The system is particularly useful to facilitate hair transplant procedures. FUs are harvested from a body surface, either attached to a patient or in a strip of removed tissue, and shuttled into a cartridge having a plurality of receptacles. The receptacles are open in a distal direction toward a removal tool, but a cover over the proximal ends of the receptacles prevents the FUs from continuing out of the cartridge. The cover is made of a permissible medium, which may be fluid permeable and/or puncturable. One way to shuttle the FUs is to provide a pressure differential, such as by applying suction to the proximal end of a receptacle. The shuttle subsystem may be incorporated within an overall automated or robotic system, or the shuttle subsystem may form part of a semi-automated or even manual apparatus.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于收获,储存和植入生物单位,特别是毛囊单位(FU)的系统和方法。 该系统特别有助于头发移植手术。 FU从身体表面收获,附接到患者或去除组织的条带,并穿梭到具有多个容器的药筒中。 插座沿远端方向朝向拆卸工具打开,但是在插座的近端上方的盖子防止了FU从盒中继续出来。 盖子由允许的介质制成,其可以是流体可渗透的和/或可刺破的。 穿梭FU的一种方式是提供压力差,例如通过将吸力施加到容器的近端。 穿梭子系统可以并入整体自动化或机器人系统中,或者梭子系统可以形成半自动或甚至手动装置的一部分。

    Follicular Unit Removal Tool with Pivoting Retention Member
    5.
    发明申请
    Follicular Unit Removal Tool with Pivoting Retention Member 有权
    具有转位保留成员的滤泡单位去除工具

    公开(公告)号:US20110245845A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-10-06

    申请号:US12752889

    申请日:2010-04-01

    IPC分类号: A61B17/50

    摘要: Tools and methods are provided for removing follicular units from a body surface while improving retention of the follicular units in the removal tool. The removal tool is configured to accommodate a retention member. The retention member may comprise pivotally movable elements which retain the follicular unit in the removal tool. The described tools and methods are especially useful for harvesting follicular units from a body surface in a hair transplantation process.

    摘要翻译: 提供了用于从身体表面去除滤泡单元的工具和方法,同时改善了去除工具中滤泡单元的保留。 移除工具被配置为容纳保持构件。 保持构件可以包括将滤泡单元保持在移除工具中的可枢转地移动的元件。 所描述的工具和方法对于在毛发移植过程中从身体表面收获滤泡单元特别有用。

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HARVESTING, STORING, AND IMPLANTING HAIR GRAFTS

    公开(公告)号:US20090088720A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-04-02

    申请号:US12194370

    申请日:2008-08-19

    IPC分类号: A61B19/00 A61B19/02

    摘要: A system and method for harvesting, storing, and implanting biological units, in particular hair follicular units (FUs). The system is particularly useful to facilitate hair transplant procedures. FUs are harvested from a body surface, either attached to a patient or in a strip of removed tissue, and shuttled into a cartridge having a plurality of receptacles. The receptacles are open in a distal direction toward a removal tool, but a cover over the proximal ends of the receptacles prevents the FUs from continuing out of the cartridge. The cover is made of a permissible medium, which may be fluid permeable and/or puncturable. One way to shuttle the FUs is to provide a pressure differential, such as by applying suction to the proximal end of a receptacle. The shuttle subsystem may be incorporated within an overall automated or robotic system, or the shuttle subsystem may form part of a semi-automated or even manual apparatus.

    BIOLOGICAL UNIT REMOVAL TOOLS WITH CONCENTRIC TUBES
    7.
    发明申请
    BIOLOGICAL UNIT REMOVAL TOOLS WITH CONCENTRIC TUBES 有权
    生物单位拆卸工具与集中管

    公开(公告)号:US20080234699A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-09-25

    申请号:US12050917

    申请日:2008-03-18

    IPC分类号: A61B17/50

    摘要: Tools and methods are provided for removing biological units from a body surface utilizing a removal tool. The tools may incorporate retention members and mechanisms configured to impede movement of the biological unit in the direction of a distal end of the tool and to improve retention of the biological unit in the tool. Some of the retention members are stationary and some are movable within the lumen of the biological unit removal tools. The distal tips of the tools are desirably configured to reduce the chance of transection of a biological unit, such as by including both cutting segments and blunt relief segments. A number of dual concentric tube embodiments permit a division of removal functions. Distal fluid or gas delivery may supplement a vacuum in a luminal space to help extract biological units from surrounding tissue.

    摘要翻译: 提供了用于使用去除工具从身体表面去除生物单元的工具和方法。 工具可以包括保持构件和机构,其构造成阻止生物单元沿着工具的远端的方向移动,并且改善生物单元在工具中的保留。 一些保持构件是固定的,并且一些保持构件可在生物单元去除工具的内腔内移动。 工具的远侧末端期望地构造成减少生物单元横切的机会,例如通过包括切割段和钝的释放段。 多个双同心管实施例允许除去功能的划分。 远端液体或气体输送可补充管腔空间中的真空以帮助从周围组织提取生物单位。

    Fluorescence detection instrument with reflective transfer legs for color decimation
    8.
    发明授权
    Fluorescence detection instrument with reflective transfer legs for color decimation 有权
    荧光检测仪带有反转传输支腿,用于抽取颜色

    公开(公告)号:US06683314B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-01-27

    申请号:US09941357

    申请日:2001-08-28

    IPC分类号: G01N2164

    摘要: An optical instrument using a plurality of lasers of different colors with parallel, closely spaced beams to stimulate scattering and fluorescence from fluorescent biological particulate matter, including cells and large molecules. A large numerical aperture objective lens collects fluorescent light while maintaining spatial separation of light stimulated by the different sources. The collected light is imaged into a plurality of fibers, one fiber associated with each optical source, which conducts light to a plurality of arrays of detectors, with each array associated with light from one of the fibers and one of the lasers. A detector array has up to ten detectors arranged to separate and measure colors within relatively narrow bands by decimation of light arriving in a fiber. A large number of detectors is mounted in a compact polygonal arrangement by using reflective transfer legs from multiple beam splitters where the transfer legs arise from a polygonal arrangement of beam splitters in a circumference within the circumferential arrangement of detectors.

    摘要翻译: 一种使用多个不同颜色的激光器的光学仪器,其具有平行的,紧密间隔的光束,以刺激来自荧光生物颗粒物质(包括细胞和大分子)的散射和荧光。 大数值孔径物镜收集荧光,同时保持由不同光源刺激的光的空间分离。 所收集的光被成像为多个光纤,一个与每个光源相关联的光纤,其将光传导到多个检测器阵列,每个阵列与来自光纤中的一个和一个激光器的光相关联。 检测器阵列具有多达十个检测器,其布置成通过抽取到达光纤的光来分离和测量相对窄带内的颜色。 大量的检测器通过使用来自多个分束器的反射转移支架安装在紧凑的多边形结构中,其中转移支腿由检测器的圆周布置内的圆周中的多边形排列的分束器产生。

    Systems and methods for harvesting follicular units
    9.
    发明授权
    Systems and methods for harvesting follicular units 有权
    用于收获滤泡单位的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08986324B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-03-24

    申请号:US12855916

    申请日:2010-08-13

    摘要: Systems and methods are provided for harvesting hair grafts from a body surface utilizing a removal tool comprising first and second elongated bodies. The described systems and methods serve to eliminate and/or at least minimize unnecessary compression of adjacent tissue during the removal process, thereby minimizing damage to the follicular unit being removed, reducing the opportunities for the follicular unit to intersect the path of the harvesting tool, and/or improving the quality of the removed specimen, preferably preserving its integrity.

    摘要翻译: 提供的系统和方法用于使用包括第一和第二细长体的去除工具从体表收获毛发移植物。 所描述的系统和方法用于消除和/或至少最小化在去除过程期间相邻组织的不必要的压缩,从而最小化对被去除的滤泡单元的损伤,减少滤泡单元与收获工具的路径相交的机会, 和/或提高去除的样品的质量,优选保持其完整性。

    Biological unit removal tools with concentric tubes
    10.
    发明授权
    Biological unit removal tools with concentric tubes 有权
    带同心管的生物装置拆除工具

    公开(公告)号:US08882784B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-11-11

    申请号:US13409834

    申请日:2012-03-01

    摘要: Tools and methods are provided for removing biological units from a body surface utilizing a removal tool. The tools may incorporate retention members and mechanisms configured to impede movement of the biological unit in the direction of a distal end of the tool and to improve retention of the biological unit in the tool. Some of the retention members are stationary and some are movable within the lumen of the biological unit removal tools. The distal tips of the tools are desirably configured to reduce the chance of transection of a biological unit, such as by including both cutting segments and blunt relief segments. A number of dual concentric tube embodiments permit a division of removal functions. Distal fluid or gas delivery may be used to help separating biological units from surrounding tissue.

    摘要翻译: 提供了用于使用去除工具从身体表面去除生物单元的工具和方法。 工具可以包括保持构件和机构,其构造成阻止生物单元沿着工具的远端的方向移动,并且改善生物单元在工具中的保留。 一些保持构件是固定的,并且一些保持构件可在生物单元去除工具的内腔内移动。 工具的远侧末端期望地构造成减少生物单元横切的机会,例如通过包括切割段和钝的释放段。 多个双同心管实施例允许除去功能的划分。 可以使用远端液体或气体输送来帮助将生物单位与周围组织分离。