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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 03, 2015
Applicant:

The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Inventor:

Charles A. Cain, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 7/00 (2006.01); A61N 7/02 (2006.01); A61B 8/13 (2006.01); A61B 17/32 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 7/00 (2013.01); A61B 8/13 (2013.01); A61B 17/320068 (2013.01); A61N 7/02 (2013.01); A61B 8/0816 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00642 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00702 (2013.01); A61B 2090/378 (2016.02); A61N 2007/003 (2013.01); A61N 2007/0039 (2013.01); A61N 2007/0052 (2013.01);
Abstract

A medical imaging and therapy device is provided that may include any of a number of features. The device may include a Histotripsy transducer, a generator and controller configured to deliver Histotripsy energy from the transducer to target tissue, and an imaging system. In some embodiments, a method of treating tissue with Histotripsy energy comprises positioning a focus of a histotripsy transducer on a target tissue, delivering histotripsy energy from the histotripsy transducer through a bone aberrator, forming a histotripsy bubble cloud on the focus, and preventing the formation of secondary histotripsy bubble clouds without implementing an aberration correction algorithm.


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