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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2018
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
John E. Burnes, Coon Rapids, MN (US);
James K. Carney, Roseville, MN (US);
Jonathan L. Kuhn, Ham Lake, MN (US);
Mark J. Phelps, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Jesper Svenning Kristensen, Virum, DK;
Rodolphe Katra, Blaine, MN (US);
MEDTRONIC, INC., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
In some examples, a medical system includes a medical device. The medical device may include a housing configured to be implanted in a target site of a patient, a light emitter configured to emit a signal configured to cause a fluorescent marker to emit a fluoresced signal into the target site, and a light detector that may be configured to detect the fluoresced signal. The medical system may include processing circuitry configured to determine a characteristic of the fluorescent marker based on the emitted signal and the fluoresced signal. The characteristic of the fluorescent marker may be indicative of a presence of a compound in the patient, and the processing circuitry may be configured to track the presence of the compound of the patient based on the characteristic of the fluorescent marker.