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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2018
Catheter for sensing shape and contact force by using fbg optical fiber and catheter system therefor
Applicants:
The Asan Foundation, Seoul, KR;
University of Ulsan Foundation for Industry Cooperation, Ulsan, KR;
Inventors:
Chang Mo Hwang, Seoul, KR;
Young Hak Kim, Seoul, KR;
Gi Byoung Nam, Seoul, KR;
Jae Soon Choi, Seoul, KR;
Gi Seok Jeong, Seoul, KR;
So Yeon Jin, Cheongju-si, KR;
Assignees:
THE ASAN FOUNDATION, Seoul, KR;
UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION, Ulsan, KR;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 25/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 25/0105 (2013.01); A61M 2025/0166 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention is advantageous in that the shape of the catheter can be sensed by detecting the position of bending of the catheter body, the direction thereof, the angle thereof, and the curvature thereof through a triplet calculation of information regarding three wavelengths that have undergone a transition along respective FBGs provided on three optical cores.