Surgery – Instruments – Light application
Patent
1992-02-24
1993-06-08
Aschenbrenner, Peter A.
Surgery
Instruments
Light application
606 17, 606 7, 606 16, A61B 1732
Patent
active
052174565
ABSTRACT:
An intra-vascular optical radial imaging system comprising an intra-vascular guidewire-compatible catheter, a source of illumination and a synchronous fluorescence detector. The catheter is inserted into a blood vessel until the tip is adjacent to a section of vessel to be imaged. A narrow beam of light emanating radially from an aperture underlying the segment to be imaged repetitively illuminates segments of the wall of the vessel in a scanning or sweeping manner with the light of a wavelength that induces fluorescence in molecules in the tissue. Fluorescence from molecules in the illuminated tissue enters the catheter through the aperture and is conveyed to a spectral analyzer. Properties of the fluorescence signal are characteristic of the particular tissue and may be used to differentiate healthy tissue from atherosclerotic plaque. The method yields not only the longitudinal position of a lesion along a vessel but also the cylindrical coordinates by determining the circular or angular position of the lesion on the interior wall of the vessel.
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Aschenbrenner Peter A.
PDT Cardiovascular, Inc.
Petit Michael G.
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