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US 2014/0005521 A1Published application
Catheter comprising capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers with an adjustable focus
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsMax Oskar Köhler, Peter Dirksen, Shunmugavelu Sokka, Ronald Dekker
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Abstract
A catheter (700, 800, 1206) comprising: a shaft with distal (808, 906, 1004, 208) and proximal ends (1006),wherein the distal end comprises at least one array of capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers (308, 402, 404, 500, 512, 600, 604, 802, 008) with an adjustable focus for controllably heating a target zone (806, 1014, 1210); and a connector (1012) at the proximal end for supplying the at least one array of capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers with electrical power and for controlling the adjustable focus.
Claims17
A catheter comprising:
- a shaft with distal and proximal ends, wherein the distal end comprises a transducer module with at least one array of capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers with an adjustable focus for controllably heating a target zone;
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- a connector at the proximal end for supplying the at least one array of capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers with electrical power and for controlling the adjustable focus wherein the transducer module is at least partly flexible.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.