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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2014
University Court of the University of Dundee, Dundee, GB;
Muhammad Sadiq, Dundee, GB;
Sandy Cochran, Dundee, GB;
Zhihong Huang, Dundee, GB;
George Corner, Dundee, GB;
Graeme McLeod, Dundee, GB;
Patrick Carena, Dundee, GB;
UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, Dundee, GB;
Abstract
An ultrasonically actuated medical implement is used in improving medical interventions and in certain instances to the generation of image data, in particular data acquired during a medical intervention or procedure. The medical implement employs a piezoelectric element which causes reciprocation between first and second mass assemblies in order to ultrasonically actuate a probe member and improve the visibility of the probe member to imaging methods. The invention also concerns the visibility of structures in target regions to be imaged and how this may be enhanced using the medical implement of the invention.