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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:
Jul. 25, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
J Fleming Dias, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
12866206 ; 1286601 ;
Abstract
A catheter tip imaging probe varies the effective radius of resolution of an acoustic beam by translating the focal length. Varying the effective radius improves the resolution at any point of interest along the arterial walls. The focal length can be dynamically translated by deflecting either the transducer or the mirror in a conventional imaging probe.