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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2023
Filed:
May. 03, 2019
Rovnat Babazade, League City, TX (US);
Yuriy Petrov, Galveston, TX (US);
Irene Petrov, Galveston, TX (US);
Rinat O. Esenaliev, League City, TX (US);
Rovnat Babazade, League City, TX (US);
Yuriy Petrov, Galveston, TX (US);
Irene Petrov, Galveston, TX (US);
Rinat O. Esenaliev, League City, TX (US);
Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system for locating a tip of a catheter that has been inserted into a patient includes an implantable catheter having a distal tip, a pulsed light source that is co-located with the distal tip of the implantable catheter, the pulsed light source being configured to emit pulses of light into surrounding patient tissue, an optoacoustic sensor configured to be applied so a skin surface of the patient at a position proximate to the pulsed light source and to sense optoacoustic waves generated when the pulses of light are absorbed by the surrounding patient tissue, and an optoacoustic console configured to receive optoacoustic wave signals from the optoacoustic sensor and to display an indication of the optoacoustic wave signals to a medical professional to provide an indication of the location of the pulsed light source and, therefore, the distal tip of the implantable catheter.