Patent Issued for Controlled bending for catheters (USPTO 11737729).

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Zdroj: Cardiovascular Week; 9/18/2023, p1267-1267, 1p
Abstrakt: Rotating the catheter tip is particularly important for intra-cardiac echocardiography catheters as the imaging transducer is commonly located on one side of the catheter tip and can therefore only acquire images in this particular direction unless rotated. The catheter may be bent along two principal axes of the catheter by turning two independent knobs placed on the catheter's handle. The medical ultrasound system of claim 1 wherein the ultrasound transducer array comprises a one-dimensional array of transducer elements for scanning a patient within a field of view, the one-dimensional array being on a distal end of the intra-cardiac echocardiography catheter for insertion within the patient. [Extracted from the article]
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