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8100892 |
Medical suction device
A medical device for fragmenting objects and aspirating remaining debris enables a physician or other medical personnel quickly and easily remove objects, such as kidney stones, from a patient. The...
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7993329 |
ERCP catheter with a removable handle for lithotriptor compatible basket
An ERCP catheter having a removable handle for a lithotriptor compatible basket is disclosed. The removable handle allows the catheter and handle assembly to be removed, leaving the basket in place...
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7875023 |
Non-invasive ultrasonic body contouring
A methodology and system for lysing adipose tissue including directing ultrasonic energy at a multiplicity of target volumes within the region, which target volumes contain adipose tissue, thereby...
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7815570 |
Non-invasive ultrasonic body contouring
A methodology and system for lysing adipose tissue including directing ultrasonic energy at a multiplicity of target volumes within the region, which target volumes contain adipose tissue, thereby...
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7785276 |
System and method for a lithotripter
A system and method for a lithotripter is provided. The system can include a shockwave generator and an ultrasonic transmitting/receiving unit, which are in communication with an evaluating unit....
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7727227 |
Medical retrieval devices with laser and retrieval assembly
A medical device includes a sheath having a lumen and an elongate member disposed within the lumen of the sheath. The elongate member is moveable relative to the sheath and includes a retrieval...
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7540868 |
Medical suction device
A medical device for fragmenting objects and aspirating remaining debris enables a physician or other medical personnel quickly and easily remove objects, such as kidney stones, from a patient. The...
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7477925 |
Erythema measuring device and method
An erythema meter includes a probe, a light source of one or more specific probing and reference wavelengths, and an acoustic detector which determines the level of erythema present in the dental...
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7470274 |
Single-blow shockwave generation device
The invention relates to a single-blow mechanical shockwave generation device used in urological surgery for disintegration of urinary duct stones, comprising a striking device which strikes a...
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7393331 |
Vortex bubble-removing and cooling system for the electromagnetic shock wave generator for the lithotripter
The present invention relates to a vortex bubble removing and cooling system for the electromagnetic shock wave generator in the lithotripter. The vortex bubble-removing and cooling system...
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7347855 |
Non-invasive ultrasonic body contouring
A methodology and system for lysing adipose tissue including directing ultrasonic energy at a multiplicity of target volumes within the region, which target volumes contain adipose tissue, thereby...
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7331951 |
Devices and methodologies useful in body aesthetics
A methodology and system for lysis or induction of apoptosis in cellulite and fat including directing ultrasonic energy at a multiplicity of target volumes within the region, which target volumes...
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6966906 |
Deflection mechanism for a surgical instrument, such as a laser delivery device and/or endoscope, and method of use
A mechanism and method for steering a surgical instrument inserted into an endoscope such as a ureteroscope, nephroscope, or cystoscope, and/or for steering the endoscope, utilizes a shape memory...
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6918876 |
Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus for obtaining an ultrasound image of a subject into which an ultrasound contrast agent mainly composed of microbubbles is injected, comprising a probe configured...
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6752801 |
Metal probe for intracorporeal calculi crushing
A metal probe for intracorporeal calculi crushing has a point at its distal end with one or several lateral notches next to the probe end. These notches secure a calculus laterally against an...
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6695834 |
Apparatus and method for stone removal from a body
A device for treating material in a body of a patient includes an expandable basket having a projection for securing material within the basket. The projection has a distal end joined to a distal...
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6517531 |
Medical suction device
A medical device for fragmenting objects and aspirating remaining debris enables a physician or other medical personnel quickly and easily remove objects, such as kidney stones, from a patient. The...
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6491685 |
Laser and acoustic lens for lithotripsy
An acoustic focusing device whose acoustic waves are generated by laser radiation through an optical fiber. The acoustic energy is capable of efficient destruction of renal and biliary calculi and...
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6440123 |
Metal probe for use in intracorporeal lithotripsy
A metal probe for intracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy has a point at its distal end with one or several lateral notches next to the probe end, These notches secure a calculus laterally against an...
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6391020 |
Photodisruptive laser nucleation and ultrasonically-driven cavitation of tissues and materials
A method and apparatus for processing a material creates a cavitation nucleus in a portion of the material by focusing optical radiation at the portion of the material and then causing mechanical...
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6285742 |
Medical workstation with unified remote control of multiple components
Medical workstation has at least two separately constructed medical devices that can be operated separately and independently of one another, of which at least one is provided with a remote...
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6248113 |
Device for the electrolytic dissolution of urinary stones and related method of treatment of urinary calculosis
A device for the electrolytic dissolution of urinary calculi in patients affected by urinary calculosis, the particularity whereof consists of the fact that it has: a tubular sleeve which is meant...
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5860972 |
Method of detection and destruction of urinary calculi and similar structures
The present invention relates generally to methods and devices for detecting, destroying and removing urinary calculi and other similar structures anywhere within an animal body, and more...
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5722980 |
Device for removal of calculi
A device for removing calculi by using an intracorporeal lithotripter (1) including a probe (2) transmitting impact waves is characterized by a guiding tube (5) for the probe, which is adapted for...
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5496306 |
Pulse stretched solid-state laser lithotripter
A method of laser lithotripsy is disclosed that utilizes pulse stretched Q-switched solid state lasers in conjunction with relatively small diameter optical fibers to achieve effective breakup of...
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5425735 |
Shielded tip catheter for lithotripsy
A shielded tip catheter for use with a pulsed energy source for fracturing deposits such as urinary and biliary stones and atherosclerotic plaque in the human body is disclosed. The flexible...
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5342350 |
Method of endoscopically treating lithiases with a multichannel probe suitable for draining the treated lithiases
A multichannel probe comprising a hollow tube defining a distal end and a proximal end, the tube being made of a flexible self-supporting material enabling the tube to fold or to be curved, and...
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5324282 |
Surgical instrument with input power transducer
A surgical instrument in the form of, for example, a two mm needle has an open distal aspiration port for holding tissue to be fractured. An optical fiber extends along the length of the needle and...
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5246447 |
Impact lithotripsy
Method and apparatus for fracturing hard deposits such as urinary and biliary stones and atherosclerotic plaque in the human body. A flexible guide having a hard mass capping an end is adapted for...
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5224942 |
Surgical method and apparatus utilizing laser energy for removing body tissue
An improved surgical method and apparatus using laser energy for destroying body tissue which includes a surgical handpiece including a surgical tip assembly which is driven by means of laser to...
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5176675 |
Use of lasers to break down objects for removal from within the body
Calculi, stones, or calcified tissue are broken down for removal from within a body using laser pulses that are delivered via an optical fiber and have a wavelength and pulse duration selected to...
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5095889 |
Endoscope for laser lithotripsy
In an endoscope designed for laser lithotripsy use is made of a laser lithotripsy unit having a guide tube insertable in the barrel of the endoscope, which guide tube encloses a laser light guide...
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5071422 |
Use of lasers to break down objects
Calculi, stones, calcified tissue and other material are broken down for removal from within a body using laser pulses that are delivered via an optical fiber and have a wavelength, intensity,...
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5041121 |
Shock wave generator
A shock wave generator for the fragmentation of concrements, having a light-pulse-transmiting light guide and a converter arranged at the distal light guide end and having an ionization surface...
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5009658 |
Dual frequency laser lithotripter
Method and apparatus are provided for laser lithotripsy by subjecting calcified matter in the mammalian body, especially the human body, to two spatially and temporally overlapping pulsed laser...
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4997435 |
Percutaneous catheter with encapsulating receptacle
A percutaneous catheter with encapsulating receptacle comprises a first catheter having a proximal and distal end, several struts attached to the distal end of the first catheter and extending...
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4968314 |
Surgical apparatus
Surgical apparatus which includes a waveguide, for example an optical fibre, through which laser energy is applied to tissues for such purposes as ablation of atheroma, destruction of calculi and...
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4960108 |
Laser-induced shockwave lithotripsy
Improved laser-induced shockwave lithotripsy in which pulsed laser radiation situated in the infrared region is concentrated by means of an optical wave guide at a concrement to be destroyed which...
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4939336 |
Method and apparatus for material processing with the aid of a laser
In a method and an apparatus for material processing with the aid of a laser the laser light is directed via a laser optical system onto the material and the light reemitted or scattered back by...
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4932954 |
Apparatus for fragmentation of a solid body surrounded by a fluid
An apparatus for the fragmentation of a solid body surrounded by a fluid, in particular in a living being, by means of acoustic shock waves which are induced by the light of a laser. A reflector...
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4927426 |
Catheter device
A catheter device for capturing and holding kidney stones and the like wherein the catheter is an elongated tube having a cuff portion disposed on one end thereof capable of being collapsed axially...
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4893614 |
Apparatus for disintegrating a calculus by an underwater shock wave from outside the human body
An apparatus for disintegrating a calculus in the human body by an underwater shock wave produced outside the human body. The apparatus includes a shock wave generation chamber having an inner...
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4682594 |
Probe-and-fire lasers
Method and apparatus of irradiating a treatment area within a body includes introducing elongated flexible radiation transfer conduit (fiberoptic arrays) into the body cavity with the distal end...
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4608979 |
Apparatus for the noninvasive shock fragmentation of renal calculi
Concretions, such as kidney stones, are nonsurgically fragmented by apparatus which produces focused shock waves. A truncated ellipsoidal reflector is positioned against the patient such that one...
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3792701 |
NEUTRALISING DEVICE FOR URINARY, URETERAL AND KIDNEY PELVIS CALULI
A device for neutralization of calculi in the urinary tract, ureteral tract and kidney comprising a probe means and a piezoelectric transducer for producing ultrasonic vibration in the probe means....
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