Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Scimed Life Systems, Inc.

Erin McKenna

Janel L Lanphere

Marcia S Buiser

Thomas V Casey, Ii

Arnold E Oyola

Jianmin Li

Wendy Naimark

George Bourne

Doreen Rao

Stephan P Mangin

Steve Keenan

Zarouhi Minasian

Paul DiCarlo

A method of treating a patient is provided. The method comprises delivering an electrically conductive material within a vascular network, wherein the electrically conductive material embolizes in a region of the vascular network to form a vascular electrode array that assumes a geometry of the embolized region of the vascular network. The method may optionally comprise delivering a containment agent within the vascular network proximal to the delivered electrically conductive material to stabilize the vascular electrode array. The method further comprises applying electrical energy (e.g., radio frequency (RF) energy) to the vascular electrode array to therapeutically conduct electrical energy into a region of the targeted tissue adjacent the embolized region of the vascular network.

Method of treating tissue with radio frequency vascular electrode array

Ferromagnetic particles and methods are disclosed.

Ferromagnetic particles and methods

A drug delivery particle including a reservoir region having primarily large pores and a metering region. The particle can be highly spherical.

Drug delivery particle

Particles and related methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of making particles can include forming a stream of a mixture including first and second materials, exposing the stream to a vibration, and treating the stream to form particles. The vibration can have, for example, a sinusoidal, triangular, and/or sawtooth waveform.

Particles

A method of treating tissue includes placing substantially spherical polymer particles in the tissue. The particles include an interior region having relatively large pores and a first region substantially surrounding the interior having fewer relatively large pores than the interior region.

Tissue treatment

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Erin McKenna