Stephen A. Griffin,Alain Cornil,Scott R. Smith,Lex Philip Jansen
申请号：
US12840091
公开号：
US08485992B2
申请日:
2010.07.20
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要：
A medical device having a segmented construction. In at least some embodiments, a medical device including a plurality of conductive elongated members that are of such a length and are connected together in such a manner to impart a degree of MRI compatibility to the device. In some embodiments, the elongated members can include a series of solid elongate members and tubular elongate members, which construction provides one way to control at least some properties of the device, for example, stiffness, torque transmission, flexibility, shape retention, and the like. In yet some additional embodiments, at least one of the elongated members has a recess into which a protrusion of another elongated member may fit.
