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US 2020/0138580 A1Published application
Assembly for imaging and/or treating brain tissue
AssigneesAssistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, Sorbonne University, Carthera
InventorsAlexandre CARPENTIER, Guillaume BOUCHOUX, Michael CANNEY, Francois LACOSTE
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an assembly for imaging and/or treating brain tissue, having at least one acoustic window (10) which comprises a plate (1) that is transparent to ultrasonic waves, and at least one positioning marker (2) which facilitates positioning of a probe for generating ultrasonic waves so as to be aligned with said acoustic window (10).
Claims11
An assembly for imaging and/or treating a brain tissue comprising:
- at least one acoustic window intended to be implanted at an opening arranged into the cranium of a patient, said acoustic window being covered with the skin of the patient's skull once implanted and
- an ultrasonic wave generation probe intended to be positioned in line with the acoustic window,
- wherein the acoustic window comprises a plate transparent to the ultrasonic waves and at least one positioning mark locatable through the skin of the patient to facilitate the positioning of the probe in line with said acoustic window prior to the generation of the ultrasonic waves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.