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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
James M Griffith, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
12866206 ; 128772 ; 128898 ;
Abstract
An ultrasound imaging method for invasive imaging, in particular for imaging blood vessels including the coronary vessels. A sheath is comprised of three lumens; one serves as an ultrasound probe passage, one serves as a guide wire passage, and one serves as either a probe or a guide wire passage and is connected to the other two. Methods of using the sheath disclosed to obtain ultrasound images of a region within a subject are disclosed.