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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2019
Applicant:
Creo Medical Limited, Chepstow, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
CREO MEDICAL LIMITED, Chepstow, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/18 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/1815 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00083 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00577 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00982 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1823 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1853 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1861 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1892 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electrosurgical instrument for delivering microwave energy to biological tissue, in which a pair of conductive tuning elements are mounted in a radiating instrument tip to shape a microwave radiation profile of the instrument so that the radiation profile is constrained around the instrument tip. Such tuning elements may result in a radiation profile that is substantially spherical around the instrument tip, providing a well-defined ablation volume. The tuning elements act to improve the efficiency with which microwave energy can be delivered into target tissue.