NON-INVASIVE HEATING OF IMPLANTED VASCULAR TREATMENT DEVICE

摘要

One embodiment of the present invention involves employing, in a vascular treatment device (12), a material (24) which has a magnetic susceptibility which is heat sensitive. The vascular treatment device (12) can then be heated remotely and non­invasively using an applied magnetic field, to a preselected temperature at which the vascular treatment device (12) becomes substantially non­magnetically susceptible.