Surgery – Instruments – Light application
Reexamination Certificate
2004-11-17
2010-06-22
Farah, Ahmed M (Department: 3769)
Surgery
Instruments
Light application
C606S007000, C606S023000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07740626
ABSTRACT:
The laser induced liquid jet generating apparatus irradiates a laser beam on a liquid in a main body, guides the generated liquid jet into a catheter via a nozzle, and generates a flow in the direction opposite the liquid jet. Even by the use of a catheter having a small outside diameter, therefore, the apparatus is enabled to effect powerful laser irradiation without being thermally affected by the laser beam and consequently shatter thrombus, for example, and recover by aspiration the shattered thrombus through the distal end of the catheter.
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Hirano Takayuki
Kanamaru Takeshi
Nakagawa Atsuhiro
Obitsu Hideshi
Omori Shigeru
Buchanan & Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Farah Ahmed M
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
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