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US 2014/0350340 A1Published application
Intracorporeal locator probe
AssigneeHaemoband Surgical Limited
InventorEssam Ghareeb
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Abstract
A probe device comprising an elongate flexible body and bend sensors for detect bending of the body and producing an output signal that is indicative of the detected bend. The probe device is connected to a processor which creates a data model of the probe device from the respective output signals of the bend sensors and renders the data model as an image of said probe device. The image may be superimposed with an image of an object, for example part of a human or animal body, into which the probe device is inserted during use.
Claims22
A probe device comprising an elongate flexible body;
- a plurality of bend sensors located at respective portions of the body space apart along the length of the body, said bend sensors being configured to detect bending of the respective portion of the body;
- and means for producing an output signal that is indicative of at least one characteristic of a detected bend in the respective portions of the body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.