The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

Canon U.s.a., Inc.

Harmonus, Inc.

Peter Tia

Takahisa Kato

Nobuhiko Hata

Kazufumi Onuma

Brian Ninni

Kemal Tuncali

Peter D Jakab

Phillip John Marathakis

There is provided a medical support device for holding and positioning a needle. This device is particularly useful for positioning needles in a less invasive puncture treatment. This device comprises two rotational elements and at least one needle guide attached to a rotational element and. The needle guide guides the direction of insertion of a needle-like instrument and includes a guide portion that guides a needle or other needle-like instrument where the puncture point of the needle in a first position is different from the puncture point when the needle guide guides the needle in a second position.

Medical support device

A sterile needle guide system for directing needle entry during a medical procedure includes a needle guide plate extending in a plane and having a plurality tubular needle guides extending through the plate at an normal angle to the plane of the plate. A movable base translatable along an axis normal to the plane of the plate defines features to removably receiving the plate. A calibrator attachment is removably securable to the needle guide plate and enables attachment of the needle guide plate to the base and calibration of the needle guide position in a sterile manner. In embodiments, the movable base includes a base body, a rail component over which the base body is movably coupled, and a ratchet mechanism for releasably securing the base body to the rail component. The disclosed needle guide system enables the needle guide plate to be positioned directly adjacent to the patient's perennial to reduce the curvature of deflection of the needle upon entry into the patient's body during the biopsy procedure.

Needle guide system for use in a medical procedure

Exemplary relates to medical devices and in particular to a tool placement manipulator with multiple rotary guides and rotation bodies, the rotation bodies being free rotationally to the ring shaped rotary guides and rotational axis of the first rotary guide being slanted with respect to the rotational axis of the second rotary guide. The tool placement manipulator has at least one socket and at least one transmission element that transmits torques from the socket to rotation bodies.

Tool placement manipulator

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Dracut, MA, United States of America

Peter Tia