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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2024
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Ehud J. Schmidt, Towson, MD (US);
Ronald D. Watkins, Stanford, CA (US);
Henry R. Halperin, Baltimore, MD (US);
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a catheter solution that would maintain MRI-compatible metallic braiding or metallic covering on a surface of the catheter, and that also prevents cables disposed in an interior lumen of the catheter from effectively propagating currents induced from external signal transmissions, which could cause a rise in temperature of the cables themselves and of tissues surrounding the catheter. The present invention uses metals which are non-ferromagnetic and not highly paramagnetic, so they do not cause large susceptibility artifacts in the MRI field. The construction of the braid prevents most of the RF fields from penetrating into the anterior of the catheter. Therefore, there is no need or a reduced need to add heat amelioration components to each electrical cable inside the catheter.