Medical laser apparatus and system
AssigneeGyrus ACMI, Inc. d.b.a. Olympus Surgical Technologies America
InventorsKurt G. Shelton, Masayasu Chida
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Abstract
A medical laser apparatus, including: an energy guide; a first energy source configured to generate energy for treating a target tissue through the energy guide; a second energy source configured to emit first and second aiming beams to a target tissue through the energy guide, the second aiming beam having at least one characteristic different from the first aiming beam; and a controller comprising hardware, the controller being configured to: receive a signal indicating an illumination mode from at least two illumination modes used by an endoscope to illuminate the target tissue; and control the second energy source to output the first or second aiming beam based on the indicated illumination mode.
Claims20
A medical system for providing treatment to a target in a patient, the medical system comprising:
- a laser apparatus comprising a first energy source configured to generate treatment energy to the target;
- a light source, external to the laser apparatus, configured to provide visualization of the target;
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- a controller circuit configured to control operation of the laser apparatus based at least in part on an operation of the light source.
A method of providing treatment to a target in a patient, the method comprising:
- activating a laser apparatus comprising a first energy source to direct treatment energy to the target;
- illuminating and thereby providing visualization of the target using a light source that is external to the laser apparatus;
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- controlling operation of the laser apparatus based at least in part on operation of the light source.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.