Surgery – Instruments – Light application
Patent
1992-06-18
1993-12-07
Pellegrino, Stephen C.
Surgery
Instruments
Light application
606 15, 606 12, A61B 1736, G02B 624
Patent
active
052679934
ABSTRACT:
A coupler for efficiently coupling a laser light source to a fiberoptic catheter. The coupler contains coding for determining information about the catheter, such as the size of the optical fiber catheter which it is coupling.
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Aparicio Facundo
Grace Kenneth P.
Harris Sonya C.
Pellegrino Stephen C.
The Spectranetics Corporation
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