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OwnerRoger Hastings, Frank Ingle +3inventors
InventorsRoger Hastings, Frank Ingle, Allan C. Shuros, Eric Petersen, Mark Hollingsworth
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Apparatuses and methods facilitate delivery of optical or photoacoustic energy to innervated vascular that contributes to renal sympathetic nerve activity. The optical energy delivered may be of sufficient power to scan or image innervated renal or aortal tissue. The optical energy delivered may be of sufficient power to ablate innervated renal or aortal tissue, such as by thermal laser ablation or photoacoustic laser ablation. A catheter for intravascular or extravascular deployment supports an optical fiber arrangement comprising a coupling for receiving light from a laser light source. An optics arrangement is supported by the catheter and coupled to the optical fiber arrangement. The optics arrangement includes one or more optical elements arranged to receive the laser light and direct optical energy to target innervated tissue or a water source from which a cavitation bubble may be created and launched for acoustically shocking the target innervated tissue.
An apparatus for facilitating delivery of optical energy to a renal artery of a patient, comprising:
An apparatus for facilitating delivery of optical energy to a renal artery of a patient, comprising:
An apparatus for facilitating delivery of optical energy to a renal artery of a patient, comprising:
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