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Daniel Gelbart

Douglas Wayne Goertzen

Kelly Wilson Watkinson

Jonathan Dahlgren

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Guy Sirton

Roland Wescott Montague

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Saar Moisa

Fernando Luis De Souza Lopes

Peter Josiah Hawes

Ashkan Sardari

John Andrew Funk

A medical device system may include transducers and a structure on which the transducers are located. The structure may include at least a first portion of each elongate member of a plurality of elongate members. Each respective set of a plurality of sets of one or more of the transducers may be located on a respective one of the plurality of elongate members. The structure may be selectively moveable between a delivery configuration in which the structure is sized to be percutaneously deliverable to a bodily cavity and a deployed configuration in which the structure is sized too large to be percutaneously deliverable to the bodily cavity. The second portion of each elongate member of the plurality of elongate members may be arranged in a helical configuration or a twisted, non-helical configuration including at least 360 degrees of rotation when the structure is in the delivery configuration.

Medical device systems and methods including helically configured or twisted, non-helically configured elongate members

A device, kit and method may employ an implantable device (e.g., annuloplasty implant) and a tool to implant such. The implantable device is positionable in a cavity of a bodily organ (e.g., a heart) and operable to constrict a bodily orifice (e.g., a mitral valve). Tissue anchors are guided into precise position by an intravascularly deployed anchor guide frame and embedded in an annulus. Constriction of the orifice may be accomplished via a variety of structures, for example by cinching a flexible cable or anchored annuloplasty ring, the cable or ring attached to the tissue anchors. The annuloplasty ring may be delivered in a generally elongated configuration, and implanted in an anchored generally arch, arcuate or annular configuration. Such may move a posterior leaflet anteriorly and an anterior leaflet posteriorly, improving leaflet coaptation to eliminate mitral regurgitation.

Medical device, kit and method for constricting tissue or a bodily orifice, for example, a mitral valve

An imaging system is equipped with two or more exposure heads that are each able to image either a separate media sheet or a portion of a single media sheet loaded on a media carrier. The imaging time for any combination of media sheets is minimized by providing for the adjustment of the spacing between the dual exposure heads whenever the media configuration changes. In imaging a unitary image using two exposure heads to each image a sub-image, any discontinuity between the end of the first sub-image and the start of the next sub-image is reduced by changing the traversing speed of one of the exposure heads by a fractional amount.

Method and apparatus for imaging with multiple exposure heads

In a door knob assembly, a guide ring for a door fits within a rose member and provides a locator so the rose member is located exactly in the center of the round opening through the door, and provides additional strength to prevent movement of the door knob assembly in the door. The guide ring has guide tubes thereon that align with holes in the inside rose member. The guide tubes ensure that attachment screws to be threadably received in tapped holes in posts of the outside rose member are inserted axially parallel to both the axis of rotation of the door knob assembly and the posts. The guide ring ensures that the screws line up with tapped holes in posts of the outside rose member and do not float or drift out of such alignment.

Guide ring for a door knob assembly

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