MEDICAL APPARATUS EMPLOYING FLEXIBLE LIGHT STRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SAME.

摘要

A method of manufacture and medical apparatus that provides an apparatus useful in illuminating at least a portion of a lumen of a body. The apparatus includes an elongated flexible member and a polymer encasement portion encasing a plurality of light emitters. The light emitters may be electrically coupled to one another without the use of wire bonds, and in some embodiments may be coupled without intervening electrical paths or traces. Light emitters may be arranged in partially overlapping back-to-back relation, either linearly and/or helically.