Fermin A. Lupotti,John W. Sliwa,Zhenyi Ma,Stephen A. Morse
申请号：
US15531641
公开号：
US20170354395A1
申请日:
2015.12.10
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要：
An apparatus for imaging tissue in three dimensions (e.g. ICE catheter) includes a shaft, a static imaging element (20) disposed within the shaft, an oscillating energy deflector (24) positioned within the beam path of the imaging element, and a drive assembly operable to oscillate the energy deflector. The imaging element can be acoustic or electromagnetic, and the energy deflector can be a prism, a lens or an acoustic mirror. By oscillating the energy deflector and/or by providing an asymmetric energy deflector, a plurality of two-dimensional image slices can be obtained. These image slices can then be assembled into a three-dimensional volumetric image.
