Surgery – Instruments – Internal pressure applicator
Patent
1997-06-13
1999-09-28
Thaler, Michael H.
Surgery
Instruments
Internal pressure applicator
600586, A61M 2510
Patent
active
059579501
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for performing balloon angioplasty treatment on a patient. The system includes a catheter for insertion into an artery of the patient, a balloon coupled to the catheter with the balloon expandable by fluid passed through the catheter in order to apply pressure to plaque lesions deposited on vascular tissue of the artery. The balloon includes a PVDF piezoelectric transducer for sensing acoustic emission signals generated by deformation of the plaque lesions and the vascular tissue. The acoustic emission signals can be analyzed by frequency analysis, time domain analysis and wavelet analysis followed by neural net correlation evaluation.
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Chandran Krishnan B.
Davidson Charles
Fildes John M.
McPherson David D.
Mockros Lyle F.
Northwestern University Medical School
Rechtin Michael D.
Thaler Michael H.
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