Johns Hopkins University

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Surgi-vision Inc.

Basf Corporation

Xiaoming Yang

Ergin Atalar

Henry R Halperin

Paul Arthur Bottomley

Albert Clark Lardo

Parag V Karmarkar

Robert J Petcavich

Christine McNamara

Elliot R McVeigh

Elliott R McVeigh

Li Yang

Lijun Mao

Christopher Yeung

Steve Tulley

Elliott R Mcveigh

Christine Enger Mcnamara

Herein is disclosed a magnetic resonance imaging probe, having a probe shaft including a magnetic resonance antenna, and a spring tip attached to a distal end of the antenna.

Magnetic resonance imaging probe

Featured are devices, systems and methods for localized heating of a vessel as well as devices, systems and methods for MR/NMR imaging of a vessel while locally heating a portion of the vessel. More particularly featured are such devices, systems and methods for use when administering or delivering therapeutic agents including genes and/or drugs to the tissues of the vessel. Such a method includes positioning a thermal energy delivery device proximal a target site with the vessel of a body and activating the thermal energy delivery device so as to heat the target site thereby locally increasing a temperature of tissue at the target site. In further embodiments, the method includes introducing a therapeutic medium to the target site over a predetermined time period, and wherein said activating occurs at least one of before, during or after said step of introducing.

Device, systems and methods for localized heating of a vessel and/or in combination with MR/NMR imaging of the vessel and surrounding tissue

The invention describes a system, method, and means for an MRI guidewire that can be visible on an MRI, can act as an antenna and receive MRI signals from surrounding subject matter, and can allow the use of multiple interventional tools without removal of the guidewire from a subject.

Magnetic resonance imaging guidewire probe

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Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Xiaoming Yang