Surgery – Instruments – Means for inserting or removing conduit within body
Reexamination Certificate
2002-11-05
2009-12-01
Nguyen, Anhtuan T (Department: 3731)
Surgery
Instruments
Means for inserting or removing conduit within body
Reexamination Certificate
active
07625382
ABSTRACT:
The movement of a catheter through a medium, which may be living tissue such as a human brain, is controlled by mechanically pushing a flexible catheter having a magnetic tip through the medium and applying a magnetic field having a magnitude and a direction that guides the mechanically-pushed catheter tip stepwise along a desired path. The magnetic field is controlled in a Magnetic Stereotaxis System by a processor using an adaptation of a PID (proportional, integral, and derivative) feedback method. The magnetic fields are applied by superconducting coils, and the currents applied through the coils are selected to minimize a current metric.
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Blume Walter M.
Creighton, IV Francis M.
Ritter Rogers C.
Werp Peter R.
Harness & Dickey & Pierce P.L.C.
Nguyen Anhtuan T
Nguyen Tuan V
Stereotaxis, Inc.
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