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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2011
Justin Wiseman, Zionsville, IN (US);
Nathalie Agar, Newton, MA (US);
Justin Wiseman, Zionsville, IN (US);
Nathalie Agar, Newton, MA (US);
Prosolia, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and sampling probe adaptable to an ultrasonic surgical instrument applies irrigation fluid and ultrasonic or vibrational energy to a target, and aspirates material desorbed from the target into a pick-up conduit. A suction source at the distal end of the conduit may aspirate the material released from the target with the irrigation fluid, thus efficiently sampling a broad range of materials from an arbitrary target to produce an analyzable effluent analyte stream which may be ionized and provided to the inlet of an ion-type analysis instrument, or may be fed directly to an instrument such as a flow cytometer, IR or fluorescence spectrophotometer, or other analyzer. Carrier gas may be provided to more effectively transport the desorbed material, and the probe may be incorporated into a robotic device to automatically carry out surface imaging or to effect sampling in hazardous environments.