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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
May. 18, 2004
Inder Raj S. Makin, Loveland, OH (US);
T. Douglas Mast, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael H. Slayton, Tempe, AZ (US);
Peter G. Barthe, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Jeffrey D. Messerly, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Waseem Faidi, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Megan M. Runk, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Inder Raj S. Makin, Loveland, OH (US);
T. Douglas Mast, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael H. Slayton, Tempe, AZ (US);
Peter G. Barthe, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Jeffrey D. Messerly, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Waseem Faidi, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Megan M. Runk, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
An ultrasound medical system has an end effector including a medical ultrasound transducer and an acoustic coupling medium. The acoustic coupling medium has a transducer-proximal surface and a transducer-distal surface. The medical ultrasound transducer is positioned to emit medical ultrasound through the acoustic coupling medium from the transducer-proximal surface to the transducer-distal surface. The end effector is adapted to change a property (such as the shape and/or the temperature) of the acoustic coupling medium during emission, and/or between emissions, of medical ultrasound from the medical ultrasound transducer during a medical procedure on a patient. In one example, such changes are used to change the focus and/or beam angle of the emitted ultrasound during the medical procedure.