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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2000
Jay P. Ciezki, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Urs Hafeli, Cleveland, OH (US);
David Bleam, Orangevale, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method for providing intravascular brachytherapy includes the step of positioning a radiation source within a target area to be radiation and orienting the attenuator found on the catheter. Once the attenuator or shield is properly oriented, a reference or normalization point or marker ( ) is selected. This reference marker ( ) can placed, as one example, on the external elastic lamina closest to catheter ( ) and can serve as a reference point for the brachytherapy treatment. Several other points of interest can be is selected ( ) on the image ( ) or images that have been gathered of the treatment site, with dosage levels ( and ) being display automatically on the display ( ) close to the IVUS image ( ).