SPENCER MAEGAN K U S A,WHITE CHRISTOPHER B U S A,MCNALL CHARLES W U S A,JACKSON DENNIS W U S A,ZUNG MICHAEL U S A,SPINELLI NICHOLAS J U S A,NGO BENJAMIN U S A,LUMABAS EVANGELINE U S A,CHAN KIN F U S A
申请号：
IN10171/DELNP/2011
公开号：
IN2011DN10171A
申请日:
2011.12.22
申请国别(地区):
IN
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
Catheter-based Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems utilizing an optical fiber that is positioned off-axis of the central longitudinal axis of the catheter have many advantage over catheter-based OCT systems, particularly those having centrally-positioned optical fibers or fibers that rotate independently of the elongate body of the catheter. An OCT system having an off-axis optical fiber for visualizing the inside of a body lumen may be rotated with the body of the elongate catheter, relative to a handle portion. The handle may include a fiber management pathway for the optical fiber that permits the off-axis optical fiber to rotate with the catheter body relative to the handle. The system may also include optical processing elements adapted to prepare and process the OCT image collected by the off-axis catheter systems described herein.
