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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2014
St. Jude Medical Coordination Center Bvba, Zaventem, BE;
Sathees Ranganathan, Sundbyberg, SE;
Anna Norlin-Weissenrieder, Lidingö, SE;
Rolf Hill, Järfälla, SE;
ST. JUDE MEDICAL COORDINATION CENTER BVBA, Zaventem, BE;
Abstract
A sensor guide wire for intravascular measurements of at least one physiological or other variable in a living body, comprising a proximal region, a distal sensor region, and a tip region, and at least one sensor element arranged in said sensor region and configured to measure the variable and to generate a sensor signal in response to the variable. The sensor guide wire further comprises a core wire, with a tip core wire portion, wherein at least part of the tip core wire portion comprises a shape memory material, and the composition of the shape memory material is such that the transformation temperature of the shape memory material is above the body temperature of the living body.