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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2005
Applicant:
Gan Zhou, Plano, TX (US);
Inventor:
Gan Zhou, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
TEA TIME PARTNERS, L.P., Rockwall, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/20 (2006.01); A61B 18/24 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01); G10K 15/04 (2006.01); A61B 18/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/24 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 8/4483 (2013.01); G01S 15/8965 (2013.01); G10K 15/046 (2013.01); A61B 2018/266 (2013.01); A61B 2090/3784 (2016.02);
Abstract
A catheter and a console for a catheter. In one embodiment, the catheter includes: (1) a wall having a substantially annular cross-section and surrounding a bore, (2) a plurality of optical fibers associated with the wall and terminating at a distal end of the wall in end faces of differing, non-perpendicular orientation with respect to longitudinal axes of the plurality of optical fibers and (3) photoacoustic layers coupled to at least some of the end faces and configured to generate an ultrasonic signal in response to laser light transmitted along the plurality of optical fibers.