Guiding-type medical system
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorHiroshi FUKUDA
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Abstract
A medical appliance is easily inserted into a desired blood vessel route. There is provided a guiding-type medical system, including: a cylindrical or linear guidewire made of an elastic body that can be inserted into a blood vessel; and a guiding device having a device head portion that can be inserted into a body to guide the guidewire inserted into the blood vessel. The device head portion includes: an ultrasonic array element that can perform an ultrasound scan along one plane to acquire an ultrasound image; and a permanent magnet linearly movable in a direction along the one plane. At a distal end of the guidewire, a magnetic head on which magnetic attraction force induced by the permanent magnet is made to act is provided.
Claims5
A guiding-type medical system, comprising:
- a cylindrical or linear medical appliance made of an elastic body that can be inserted into a blood vessel;
- and
- a guiding device having an insertion portion that can be inserted into a body to guide the medical appliance inserted into the blood vessel, wherein
- the insertion portion includes:
- an ultrasound probe that can perform an ultrasound scan along one plane to acquire an ultrasound image;
- and
- a magnet linearly movable in a direction along the one plane, and
- at a distal end of the medical appliance, a magnetic member made of a magnetic material on which magnetic attraction force induced by the magnet is made to act is provided.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.