Surgery – Instruments – Light application
Patent
1998-07-22
2000-10-31
Dvorak, Linda C. M.
Surgery
Instruments
Light application
606 8, 606 15, 606 2, A61B 1818
Patent
active
061395439
ABSTRACT:
The invention encompasses methods and apparatus for pumping fluid from one location to another through the repetitive expansion and collapse of bubbles generated as a result of the absorption of repetitive pulses of radiation in a fluid. This pumping phenomenon can be used to aid removal of a total or partial occlusion in a body passage by emulsifying the occlusion with acoustic shock and pressure waves or by mechanically disrupting the occlusive material.
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Anderson R. Rox
Esch Victor C.
Hebert Stephen J.
Levine Marc-Alan
Sucgang Eduardo U.
Dvorak Linda C. M.
EndoVasix, Inc.
Gibson Roy
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