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US 2025/0090184 A1Published application
Treatment of ischaemia
AssigneeVersono Medical Limited
InventorsFinbar DOLAN, Hugh O'DONOGHUE
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Abstract
An endovascular apparatus for crossing through an obstruction in a blood vessel comprises an elongate endovascular wire and a coupling. The coupling when in use transmits ultrasonic energy along the wire from an ultrasonic energy source to an active tip at a distal end of the wire. The coupling is arranged to couple the source to the wire at any of a plurality of discrete operational positions along the length of the wire for said transmission of ultrasonic energy to the active tip.
Claims15
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Endovascular apparatus for crossing through an obstruction in a blood vessel, the apparatus comprising:
- an electrically-driven source of ultrasonic energy;
- a coupling for exciting an endovascular wire, in use, to transmit ultrasonic energy along the wire from the source thereby coupled to the wire to an active tip at a distal end of the wire;
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- a signal acquisition and processing system that is configured to:
- capture and respond to operational parameters of the apparatus as the active tip approaches or crosses through an obstruction in use;
- monitor variations in frequency of vibration of the wire via the coupling;
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- infer displacement of the active tip of the wire from waveforms in the wire determined from said variations in frequency of vibration of the wire.
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