REFERENCING OPTICAL CATHETERS

摘要

The invention illustrates a catheter (40) with a delivery output fiber (44) and an input fiber (46) and a transmission window (47), in blood (43) within a blood vessel (42). As light exists delivery fiber (44), it passes through the transmission window (47), the blood (43), the surface of the blood wall (42a), the wall (42b) itself, the surface of the lipid pool (45a), and into the lipid pool (45b), of a lipid-rich vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque.