Submersible lens fiberoptic assembly for use in PDT treatment

Details Submersible lens fiberoptic assembly for use in PDT treatment Submersible lens fiberoptic assembly for use in PDT treatment

1992-02-19

1993-03-02

Smith, Ruth S.

Surgery

Instruments

Light application

606 17, 128398, 385 35, A61N 506

Patent

active

051905361

ABSTRACT:
A submersible lens fiberoptic assembly for PDT treatment includes an optical fiber, a fiber jacket, a ball lens made of zirconia and a housing. This fiberoptic assembly is simple and inexpensive to manufacture, and has a high quality of output light beam. A submersible lens fiberoptic assembly for PDT treatments is also disclosed which uses a hemisphere ball lens for treatment of areas inaccessible to a normal "forward looking" lens.

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