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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
May. 11, 2012
Applicant:
Andres Felipe Zuluaga, Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Andres Felipe Zuluaga, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Remicalm, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/303 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0071 (2013.01); A61B 1/00039 (2013.01); A61B 1/00186 (2013.01); A61B 1/042 (2013.01); A61B 1/043 (2013.01); A61B 1/0646 (2013.01); A61B 1/303 (2013.01); A61B 5/0075 (2013.01); A61B 5/0084 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0437 (2013.01);
Abstract
A medical examination device used for the detection of pre-cancerous and cancerous tissue has an illumination source, a visualization unit, a contacting optical probe, a detector and a process unit. One embodiment of the apparatus includes both a non-contacting macroscopic viewing device (the visualization unit) for visualizing an interior surface of the cervix, as well as a fiber optic wand (contacting optical probe) for spectrally analyzing a microscopic view of the tissue.