US Patent No: 7,753,852
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Atherectomy catheter with combined OCT/IVUS imaging
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Jul 13, 2010
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Sep 22, 2006
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Abstract
Catheter device for performing atherectomy, comprising an atherectomy catheter, an OCT sensor, an IVUS sensor, position sensors and an image processing unit, which is embodied for creating combined 2D and/or 3D images based on the data of the sensors.
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| 6,298,261 Catheter tracking system | 27 | 1998 | |
| 6,772,001 Medical examination and/or treatment system | 12 | 2003 | |
| 2005/0113,685 Medical system for examination or treatment | 8 | 2004 | |
| 2005/0203,553 Device for the performance and monitoring of rotablation | 6 | 2005 | |
| 2005/0234,343 Medical device for removing a vascular occlusion | 1 | 2005 | |
| 2005/0222,595 Device for removing a total vascular occlusion with OCT monitoring | 3 | 2005 | |
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| 5,391,199 Apparatus and method for treating cardiac arrhythmias | 502 | 1993 | |
| 5,752,513 Method and apparatus for determining position of object | 199 | 1995 | |
| 6,366,799 Movable transmit or receive coils for location system | 70 | 1998 | |
| 6,788,967 Medical diagnosis, treatment and imaging systems | 59 | 1999 | |
| 6,546,271 Vascular reconstruction | 30 | 1999 | |
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| 6,506,972 Magnetically shielded conductor | 76 | 2002 | |
| 6,673,999 Magnetically shielded assembly | 71 | 2002 | |
| 6,713,671 Magnetically shielded assembly | 68 | 2002 | |
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| 5,895,402 Intravascular catheter with guiding structure | 28 | 1997 | |
| 5,865,748 Guided directional coronary atherectomy distal linear encoder | 16 | 1998 | |
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| 2006/0015,126 Atherectomy system with imaging guidewire | 15 | 2003 | |
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| 5,830,145 Enhanced accuracy of three-dimensional intraluminal ultrasound (ILUS) image reconstruction | 78 | 1996 | |
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| 5,897,529 Steerable deflectable catheter having improved flexibility | 82 | 1997 | |
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| 6,299,622 Atherectomy catheter with aligned imager | 70 | 1999 | |
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| 5,769,087 Urine measurement apparatus and method for the determination of the density of urine | 15 | 1995 | |
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| 5,540,959 Process for preparing a coated substrate | 45 | 1995 | |
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| 2006/0081,031 Medical coating test apparatus and method | 3 | 2004 | |
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| 2004/0133,106 Ultrasonic imaging apparatus and method | 4 | 2003 | |
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| 6,813,512 Method and apparatus for intravascular localization and imaging without X-rays | 13 | 2001 | |
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| 6,217,527 Methods and apparatus for crossing vascular occlusions | 136 | 1998 | |
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| 6,233,476 Medical positioning system | 231 | 1999 | |
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| 6,152,878 Intravascular ultrasound enhanced image and signal processing | 30 | 1998 | |
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| 5,287,858 Rotational atherectomy guidewire | 35 | 1992 | |
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| 2002/0019,644 Magnetically guided atherectomy | 81 | 2001 | |
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| 6,148,095 Apparatus and method for determining three-dimensional representations of tortuous vessels | 83 | 1997 | |
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| 5,638,819 Method and apparatus for guiding an instrument to a target | 289 | 1995 | |
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