CA2001336A1 - Delivering laser energy - Google Patents

Delivering laser energy

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CA2001336A1
CA2001336A1 CA002001336A CA2001336A CA2001336A1 CA 2001336 A1 CA2001336 A1 CA 2001336A1 CA 002001336 A CA002001336 A CA 002001336A CA 2001336 A CA2001336 A CA 2001336A CA 2001336 A1 CA2001336 A1 CA 2001336A1
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Kenton W. Gregory
R. Rox Anderson
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    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
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Abstract

A method for conducting laser energy to a site includes steps of bringing the proximal end of a flexible tuba near the site. filling at least a proximal portion of the tube with a liquid by introducing the liquid into the tube, allowing a portion of the liquid to flow out from the proximal end of the tube toward the site, and directing laser energy from a laser energy source into the distal end of the tube. whereby a portion of the laser energy emerges from the proximal end of the tube at the site. Also, such a method in which the liquid is a radiographic contrast medium.
Also, such a method for removing an obstruction from a blood vessel in an animal. Also, apparatus for delivering laser energy to a site includes a flexible tube, a liquid, the tube having an opening in a first end through which the liquid can pass, means for providing a flow of the liquid into the tube, and a source of lager energy operationally associated with a second end of the tube, wherein the tube and the liquid are adapted to cooperate, when the tube contains the liquid, to conduct laser energy from the source and to emit a portion of the laser energy from the first end of the liquid-containing tube.
CA002001336A 1988-10-24 1989-10-24 Delivering laser energy Expired - Fee Related CA2001336C (en)

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