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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2004
Applicant:
Roni Zvuloni, Haifa, IL;
Inventor:
Roni Zvuloni, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
Galil Medical Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/103 (2006.01); A61B 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is of system, device, and method for detecting and localizing obstruction in a blood vessel. More particularly, the present invention is of a balloon catheter having an expandable balloon which comprises a plurality of strain gauges operable to report relative degrees of expansion of local portions of a wall of the expandable balloon. Incomplete expansion of a local portion of the balloon, under common pressure within the balloon, indicates presence of an obstruction, such as a region of plaque, within the blood vessel.