Medical Device Technologies, Inc.

Other

Andris Taube

Matthew M Quest

Sophie Marcoux

John C Taube

A snare for snaring an article in a vessel of a vascular system or other body vessel. The snare includes a core cable having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The snare also includes first, second and third loops each having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, and a mid-portion therebetween formed by spaced apart first and second sides connected together at the distal end portion of the loop. The mid-portions of each of the loops cross over mid portions of one of the other two loops, and the loops are only connected together at their proximal end portions, where they are gathered together and attached to the distal end portion of the core cable. The loops are movable between an open position and a closed position.

Snare

The invention involves an adapter with peripheral image averaging means for exposure control or attaching an automatic exposure control camera or camera with an exposure meter to a microscope for the purpose of photographing the material on the microscope stage. The adapter uses a separating element which divides the magnified image into the part which completely fills the camera's rectangular film format allowing it to pass to the film without appreciable interference and the remaining part, the peripheral image, which the separating element collects and directs toward the camera's automatic exposure control port where a reflector aims the extracted second part of the magnified image onto a translucent screen in front of the camera's exposure control port.

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Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Andris Taube