发明名称 Guide wire assembly
摘要 Systems and methods for guiding the advancement of a guide wire through body tissue are described. In one embodiment, the guide wire has a first end, a second end, or guide wire head, a bore (34) extending through the first ends, the second ends, and includes an interferometric guidance system (22). The interferometric guidance system (22) includes a low coherent illumination source (46), an optical beam splitter (40), a first optic fiber (42), a second optic fiber (44), and a photo-detector (52). Each optic fiber includes a first end, a second end, and is wrapped around a piezoelectric transducer (48, 50). The second optic fiber (44) has a fixed reflector on the second end. The photo-detector (52) is configured to determine interference between a first reflected light beam propagating through the first optic fiber (42), and a second reflected light beam propagating through the second optic fiber (44).
申请公布号 NZ507188(A) 申请公布日期 2002.10.25
申请号 NZ19990507188 申请日期 1999.03.25
申请人 INTRALUMINAL THERAPEUTICS, INC 发明人 WINSTON, THOMAS;NEET, JOHN
分类号 A61B18/20;A61B5/00;A61B17/00;A61B18/24;A61M25/01;(IPC1-7):A61B9/00 主分类号 A61B18/20
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