Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Asml Netherlands B.v.

Philips Gmbh

Philips Intellectual Property & Standards Gmbh

Martinus Bernardus Van Der Mark

Gerhardus Wilhelmus Lucassen

Gert Wim 't Hooft

Eibert Gerjan Van Putten

Levinus Pieter Bakker

Molly Lara Flexman

Oliver Lips

Mark Thomas Johnson

Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks

Sander Frederik Wuister

Johan Frederik Dijksman

Rieko Verhagen

David Paul Noonan

Yannyk Parulian Julian Bourquin

Waltherus Cornelis Jozef Bierhoff

Arie Jeffrey Den Boef

Vadim Yevgenyevich Banine

Thomas Koehler

Aleksandra Popovic

Raymond C Chan

Josephus Arnoldus Henricus Maria Kahlman

Peter Dirksen

Bastiaan Wilhelmus Maria Moeskops

Anja Van De Stolpe

Michael Cornelis Van Beek

Christian Reich

Marjolein Van Der Voort

Adrianus Wilhelmus Dionisius Maria Van Den Bijgaart

Andre Bernardus Jeunink

Johan Hendrik Klootwijk

Tim Nielsen

Karen Irene Trovato

Robert Manzke

Paul Van Der Sluis

Franciscus Johannes Gerardus Hakkens

Bernhard Johannes Brendel

Roelof Koole

Johannes Joseph Hubertina Barbara Schleipen

Erwin Rinaldo Meinders

Jeroen Herman Lammers

Bharat Ramachandran

Hans Willem Van Kesteren

Klaas Cornelis Jan Wijbrans

Arnoldus Johannes Martinus Jozeph Ras

Godefridus Johannes Verhoeckx

Anna Hendrika Van Dusschoten

Kiran Kumar Thumma

Vishnu Vardhan Pully

Jarich Willem Spliethoff

Axel Winkel

Stephan Voss

Elbert Gerjan Van Putten

Susanne Dorien Van Den Berg-Dams

Arthur Johannes Hubertus Wachters

Joseph Petrus Henricus Ter Borch

Hendrina Helena Aleida Evenaar-Geven

Paul Thienphrapa

Egbert Lenderink

Alwin Rogier Martijn Verschueren

Jeroen Jan Lambertus Horikx

Liesbeth Van Pieterson

Andy Ziegler

Ahmet Ekin

Robert Frans Maria Hendriks

Jacobus Josephus Leijssen

Neriman Nicoletta Kahya

Torre Michelle Bydlon

Christianus Martinus Van Heesch

Wilhelmus Henrica Gerarda Maria Van Den Boomen

Ruediger Mauczok

Jacobus Bernardus Giesbers

Alphonsus Tarcisius Jozef Maria Schipper

Jacob Roger Haartsen

Gerwin Jan Puppels

Aryeh Leib Reinstein

Sander Hans Denissen

Hendrik Huijgen

Cornelius Antonius Nicolaas Maria Van Der Vleuten

Henri Marie Joseph Boots

Antonius Wilhelmus Maria De Laat

Margreet De Kok

Maurice Hubertus Elisabeth Van Der Beek

Petrus Henricus Cornelius Bentvelsen

Edwin Heijman

Peter Jacobus Caspers

Harry Marinus

Julius Cohen

Ronny Ziegler

Paulus René Maria Van Beers

Martijn Schellekens

Martin Pekar

Marjolen Van Der Voort

Emiel Andreas Godefridus Peeters

Gert ′t Hooft

Hendrikus Antonius Cornelus Maria Compen

Hendrikus Antonius Cornelus Compen

A hair cutting device for cutting hair on a body of a subject includes a light source for generating laser light at one or more specific wavelengths corresponding to wavelengths absorbed by one or more chromophores in hair; and a cutting element that has an optical waveguide that is coupled to the light source to receive laser light. A portion of a side wall of the optical waveguide forms a cutting face for contacting hair where, at least at the cutting face, the optical waveguide has a refractive index that is equal to or lower than the refractive index of hair and higher than the refractive index of skin.

Hair cutting device

A radio frequency (RF) antenna arrangement comprising an RF antenna element and an optical back-end. The RF antenna element comprises an electrically conductive loop, an electronic pre-amplifier and a photo-electrical conversion element. The optical back-end comprising an optical power source and a photodetector. The RF antenna element and the optical back-end being optically coupled, and wherein the optical power source is optically coupled to the photo-electrical conversion element. The photo-electrical conversion element generates upon incidence of optical power from the optical power source an electrical power signal to the pre-amplifier. The photo-electrical conversion element generates optical data signals from electrical data signals picked-up by the electrically conductive loop. The photo-electrical conversion element applies the optical data signals to the photodetector.

Radio frequency (RF) antenna element with an optical back-end

A hub for an optical shape sensing reference includes a hub body () configured to receive an elongated flexible instrument () with a shape sensing system coupled to the flexible instrument within a path formed in the hub body. A profile () is formed in the hub body in the path to impart a hub template configured to distinguish a portion of the elongated flexible instrument within the hub in shape sensing data. An attachment mechanism () is formed on the hub body to detachably connect the hub body to a deployable instrument such that a change in a position of the hub body indicates a corresponding change in the deployable device.

Hub for device navigation with optical shape sensed guidewire

An optical fiber (F) having a length defining a longitudinal direction is disclosed. The optical fiber (F) has at least two fiber cores (C, C) extending along the length of the optical fiber (F), and an optical coupling member (OCM) is arranged at a proximal optical fiber end of the optical fiber (F). The coupling member (OCM) has a first distal end face (OF) optically connected to the proximal optical fiber end, and a proximal second end face (IF) spaced apart from the first distal end face (OF) in the longitudinal direction of the optical fiber (F), the optical coupling member (OCM) being configured to couple light into each of the fiber cores (C, C, C).

Optical shape sensor, optical shape sensing console and system, and optical shape sensing method

The present invention relates to an optical connection device for optically connecting a first connector () of a first optical fiber device () with a second connector () of a second optical fiber device () along an optical axis, which comprises a plug part () having an elongated shaft () having a longitudinal shaft axis () and a lumen () extending through the shaft () along the shaft axis () for receiving the first connector (), the plug part () further having a cap () at a first end of the shaft () which has an insertion opening () for insertion of the first connector () into the lumen (), the opening () being aligned and communicating with the lumen (), the plug part () having an optical window () having a solid body element (), wherein the plug part () is at least in part deformable; and a clamp part (), wherein the plug part () is configured to be at least partially inserted into the clamp part (), and the clamp part () is configured to, when the plug part () is at least partially inserted in the clamp part () and when the first connector () is inserted into the lumen () of the shaft () of the plug part (), exert a force onto the plug part () which deforms the plug part () upon tightening the clamp part () so as to clamp and hold the first connector () in position and orientation with respect to the optical axis.

Optical connection device and method

A reflection reduction device includes an optical fiber () configured for optical sensing and having an end portion. A tip portion () is coupled to the end portion. The tip portion includes a length dimension (d) and is index matched to the optical fiber. The tip portion is further configured to include an absorption length to absorb and scatter light within the length dimension, and a surface (S) opposite the end portion is configured to reduce back reflections.

Tip reflection reduction for shape-sensing optical fiber

A biopsy device is provided comprising a tubular member, a hollow shaft and an elongated fiber body. The hollow shaft may have a distal end and a shaft, wherein a laterally (sidewardly) facing notch is formed in the distal portion of the shaft. The elongated fiber body may include at least one optical fiber, preferably at least two optical fibers, with a distal end. The tubular member is movable relative to the shaft, between a first position in which the notch is covered by the tubular member, and a second position in which the notch is not covered by the tubular member. The fiber body is movable within the shaft, between a first position in which the distal end of the optical fiber is located at the distal end of the shaft with the elongated fiber body extending through the notch, and a second position in which the distal end of the at least one optical fiber is located proximally to the notch.

System with photonic biopsy device for obtaining pathological information

A system and method for determining the length of a non-shape-sensed interventional device () which includes a shape-sensed guidewire () that is received in the lumen () of the device. A hub () is configured to secure a position of the shape-sensed guidewire and interventional device. A registration module () is configured to register a position of the distal tip () of the non-shape-sensed interventional device to a position of the shape-sensed guidewire. A determination module () determines the length of the non-shape-sensed interventional device using a known position of the device in the hub and the position of the distal tip of the device. The system includes a detection module () that receives curvature data from the shape-sensed guidewire and is configured to determine the state of the shape-sensed guidewire with respect to an interventional device.

Systems and methods for determining the length of a non-shape-sensed interventional device with a shape-sensed guidewire and determining a state of the guidewire with respect to an interventional device

A radio frequency (RF) antenna element with a (de)tuning system, with the RF antenna element having a resonant electrically conductive loop and a (de)tuning system including a photosensitive switching element to (de)tune the resonant electrically conductive loop. The (de)tuning system comprises an injection optical source optically coupled to the photosensitive switching element.

Radio frequency (RF) antenna element with a (de) tuning system

An RF antenna element with a detuning system in which the RF antenna element comprises a resonant electrically conductive loop. The (de)tuning system comprising a switching element to (de)tune the resonant electrically conductive loop. The (de)tuning system element includes an electroluminescent element coupled to the resonant electrically conductive loop. The (de)tuning system includes a photo-electrical conversion element to detect an electro-luminescent signal from the electroluminescent element.

Radio frequency (RF) antenna element with a detuning system

The present invention relates to a method of and a system for optically connecting an optical fiber sensor () to an optical shape sensing console (). The optical shape sensing console () has a number of single optical channels (C, C, C). The optical fiber sensor () has a number of single fiber cores (A, A, A) angularly spaced with respect to one another around a longitudinal center axis of the fiber sensor () and a fiber sensor connection end () for connection to an optical coupler () connected to the shape sensing console (). The optical coupler () has the optical channels (C, C, C) arranged for optical connection with the fiber cores (A, A, A). A number of single calibration data sets indicative of individual optical properties of the single fiber cores (A, A, A) is assigned to the single optical channels (C, C, C). The fiber sensor connection end () is connected to the optical coupler () such that a first fiber core (A) of the fiber cores (A, A, A) is in optical communication with a first optical channel (C) of the optical channels (C, C, C). An optical response of the first fiber core (A) is measured by optically interrogating the first fiber core (A) while a first calibration data set of the calibration data sets is assigned to the first optical channel (C). The first fiber core (A) is identified among the fiber cores (A, A, A) of the fiber sensor () on the basis of the measured optical response of the first fiber core (A) and the calibration data sets of the fiber sensor (). If the first fiber core (A) is identified as not matching with the first calibration data set used hi measuring the optical response, then a second calibration data set of the calibration data sets, which matches with the identified first fiber core (A), is reassigned to the first optical channel (C), or the fiber sensor connection end () and/or the optical coupler () are repositioned such that a second fiber core (A) matching with the first calibration data set is in optical communication with the first optical channel (C).

Methods and systems for optically connecting an optical fiber sensor to an optical shape sensing console

The present invention relates to an optical link, comprising an optical converter circuit () having an optoelectronic device () and circuitry () connected to the optoelectronic device (). The optoelectronic device () has a plurality of individual optoelectronic segments (-). The optical link further comprises an elongated optical guide () having a single optical fiber optically connected at a first end to the optoelectronic device () and configured to transmit light away from the optoelectronic device (), wherein the individual optoelectronic segments (-) have different positions relative to the first end of the optical fiber so that light beams emitted by the optoelectronic segments (-) are coupled into the optical fiber under different angles. The optoelectronic device () is configured to receive from the circuitry () on at least some of the segments (-) a plurality of data streams and optically send the plurality of data streams as spatially diverse data streams into the optical guide (). The optical link further comprises

Optical transmitter, optical receiver and optical link

The present invention relates to an optical transceiver, comprising an optical converter circuit () comprising an optoelectronic device (), an electronic appliance () generating data, and circuitry () configured to control the optoelectronic device () and the electronic appliance (). The optoelectronic device () is configured to, upon receiving an incoming optical beam, convert the optical beam into electrical energy. The optoelectronic device () is further configured to emit optical pulses, wherein emission of the optical pulses is induced by the incoming optical beam through photo-induced electro-luminescence (PIEL), wherein the optical pulses based on photo-induced electro-luminescence comprise the data generated by the electronic appliance (). The circuitry () is configured to modulate the data onto the optoelectronic device () according to a multiple signal-level coding scheme causing the optoelectronic device () to emit the optical pulses in more than two different levels of a discrete set of optical intensities.

Optical transceiver, optical system, interventional device and method for supplying energy and returning data

An ultrasound system () is disclosed that comprises a probe () including an array () of CMUT (capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducer) cells (), each cell comprising a substrate () carrying a first electrode (), the substrate being spatially separated from a flexible membrane () including a second electrode () by a gap (); and a bias voltage source () coupled to said probe and adapted to provide the respective first electrodes and second electrodes of at least some of the CMUT cells with a monotonically varying bias voltage including a monotonically varying frequency modulation in a transmission mode of said probe such that the CMUT cells are operated in a collapsed state and transmit at least one chirped pulse during said transmission mode. Such a system for instance may be an ultrasound imaging system or an ultrasound therapeutic system. An ultrasonic pulse generation method using such as system is also disclosed.

Ultrasound system and method

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