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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2023
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Tada, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yoichiro Kuwano, Tokyo, JP;
TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medical system includes a device including a drive shaft, a cutter for cutting an object within a cutting range, a tube surrounding the shaft and including a contrast marker, and rollers for rotating and moving the pipe, a memory storing information including cross-sectional images of the cavity, an imaging device capturing images of the marker, and a controller determining, based on the information, a target position of the cutter and a target orientation of the marker in an image to be captured when the object is within the range, determining a current position of the cutter based on a captured image and moving the pipe such that the cutter reaches the target position, and determining an orientation of the marker in a captured image and rotating the pipe such that the marker in the image has the target orientation.