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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2004
Kazuyoshi Takayama, Sendai, JP;
Takayuki Hirano, Sendai, JP;
Atsuhiro Nakagawa, Sendai, JP;
Hideshi Obitsu, Fuji, JP;
Shigeru Omori, Hadano, JP;
Takeshi Kanamaru, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuyoshi Takayama, Sendai, JP;
Takayuki Hirano, Sendai, JP;
Atsuhiro Nakagawa, Sendai, JP;
Hideshi Obitsu, Fuji, JP;
Shigeru Omori, Hadano, JP;
Takeshi Kanamaru, Kanagawa, JP;
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The laser induced liquid jet generating apparatus irradiates a laser beam on a liquid in a main body, guides the generated liquid jet into a catheter via a nozzle, and generates a flow in the direction opposite the liquid jet. Even by the use of a catheter having a small outside diameter, therefore, the apparatus is enabled to effect powerful laser irradiation without being thermally affected by the laser beam and consequently shatter thrombus, for example, and recover by aspiration the shattered thrombus through the distal end of the catheter.