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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
May. 23, 2016
The University of North Carolina AT Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (US);
Ron Alterovitz, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Richard Harry Feins, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Bryan Irby Hartley, Nashville, TN (US);
Alan David Kuntz, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Erik Lamers, Allison Park, PA (US);
Arthur William Mahoney, Nashville, TN (US);
Andria Annette Remirez, Nashville, TN (US);
Philip Joseph Swaney, Nashville, TN (US);
Robert James Webster, III, Nashville, TN (US);
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for transoral lung access. In some examples, the system includes a bronchoscope, a concentric tube probe deployable from within the bronchoscope, and a steerable needle nested deployable from within the concentric tube probe. The system can include a control system for deploying the concentric tube probe from the bronchoscope into a lung to a location where a target is within a range of the steerable needle and for deploying the steerable needle from the location to the target.