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AssigneeUeth & Haug GmbH
InventorsBernhard Aeikens, Thorsten Ahrens, Rudiger Schwagler, Clemens Scholz
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An endoscope, in particular for applications in urology, has a hollow shaft (10), an optical viewing system (12) which can be inserted in the hollow shaft (10) and has a fiber-optic illumination system, an optical fiber (16) which can be introduced with the optical system (12) into the hollow shaft (10) and connected at its proximal end to an external laser source and is bent at its distal end away from the shaft axis. In order to allow irradiation of tissue lying closely packed around the hollow shaft, an indeformable holding tube (14) which is parallel to the optical system (12) and passes through the hollow shaft (10) is provided; this tube accommodates the optical fiber (16) and its distal end is bent at a fixed angle in relation to the shaft axis and accommodated entirely within the shaft cross-section. A spacer (36) with a radiation window (32) ensures that the tissue to be irradiated cannot lie next to the point (18) at which light emerges from the optical fiber (16).
An endoscope, especially for urological applications, comprising a hollow shaft, an optical viewing system which has a fiber optical source of illumination and which is positioned inside the hollow shaft, and an optical fiber which is positioned inside the hollow shaft together with the optical viewing system, which is connected to an external laser light source at its proximal end and the distal end of which is bent away from the axis of the shaft, characterized by a rigid holding tube accepting the optical fiber, which extends through the hollow shaft in parallel to the optical viewing system and the distal end of which is bent away from the axis of the hollow shaft by a fixed angle of 10.degree. C. to 110.degree. C. and positioned fullly within the cross section of the hollow shaft, the holding tube having a jacket slit for laterally inserting the end of the optical fiber at least in the region of its bent distal end.
An endoscope, especially for urological applications, comprising a hollow shaft, an optical viewing system which has a fiber optical source of illumination and which is positioned inside the hollow shaft, and an optical fiber which is preferably positioned inside the hollow shaft together with the optical viewing system, which is connected to an external laser light source at its proximal end and the distal end of which is bent away from the axis of the shaft, characterized by a rigid holding tube accepting the optical fiber, which extends through the hollow shaft in parallel to the optical viewing system and the distal end of which is bent away from the axis of the hollow shaft by a fixed angle of 10.degree. C. to 110.degree. C. and positioned fully within the cross section of the hollow shaft, the optical fiber, which protrudes over the proximal end of the holding tube, being removably connectable to a mother fiber which leads to the laser light source by way of a plug-type connector.
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