Kidney stone identification system
AssigneeGyrus ACMI, Inc.
InventorsDavid Bloem, Charles A. Baker, Kurt G. Shelton
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Abstract
System and techniques for target identification system are described herein. In an example, a system can include a medical instrument for ablating a target and a mechanism for removing the ablated target from an anatomic site into an evacuation path. The evacuation path can include a measurement chamber. The system can also include a turbulence-generation system that can generate turbulence in the measurement chamber. The system can also include a target-identification system that can determine a characteristic of at least a portion of the ablated target in the measurement chamber.
Claims21
A system comprising:
- a medical target ablation instrument for ablating a target located at an anatomic site within a patient, the medical target ablation instrument defining therewithin an evacuation path for transporting the ablated target away from the anatomic site;
- a measurement chamber located along the evacuation path;
- a turbulator configured to generate turbulence within the measurement chamber;
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- a target composition characterization system, operatively coupled to the measurement chamber, the target composition characterization system configured to determine a composition characteristic of the ablated target during agitation within the measurement chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.