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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5178153 | Fluid flow sensing apparatus for in vivo and industrial applications employing novel differential optical fiber pressure sensors An optical fiber fluid flow device is provided for in vivo determination of blood flow in arteries. The device includes a fiber optical fluid pressure measuring device having at least first and second optical fiber sensors which optical fiber sensors are ... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5122135 | Apparatus for the surgical treatment of a point situated in an eye An apparatus having a first generator designed to produce a first beam of coherent light, the energy of which is concentrated in a succession of impulses each capable causing a microexplosion in organic tissue at the point to be treated, a second generato... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5111826 | Indirect continuous blood pressure method A piezoelectric transducer clamped onto the fingertip with a fixed pressure yields an indirect continuous blood pressure waveform that can be used to monitor a patient's blood pressure characteristics over extended periods of time and during most normal d... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5074862 | Surgical equipment The surgical equipment comprises a sealed CO2 working laser (13) and a sighting He Ne-laser (12) the beams of which are superimposed; a cooling circuit of the working laser comprising a heat exchanger the secondary of which is fed with a liquid... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5029583 | Optical analyzer An optical analyzer for determining an analyte in a fluid of interest such as a body fluid of interest satisfying the foregoing need and embodying the present invention may include a housing; combination optically transparent cuvette and lancet mounted re... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5025811 | Method for focal destruction of eye tissue by electroablation A non-invasive method for focal transcleral destruction of living human eye tissue. The method includes providing a conical-shaped probe, filled with a neutral saline solution and having inserted therein an electrode connected to the positive terminal of ... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5025785 | Diabetes detection method A noninvasive method for detecting the presence of diabetes mellitus and for monitoring physical changes caused by that disease is disclosed. In performing the method, a beam of light from a low powered laser is directed at a clear site in the lens of a p... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5022403 | Automatic blood pressure measuring device and method with cuff size determination The device measures blood pressure automatically using the oscillometric technique wherein cuff pressure is deflated stepwise in dynamically determined increments while cuff pressure oscillations are sensed at each cuff pressure level and stored in a comp... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5019074 | Laser reprofiling system employing an erodable mask A laser system for reprofiling a surface comprising a laser and an erodable mask disposed between the laser means and the surface for providing a predefined profile of resistance to erosion by laser radiation, and control for controlling the laser such th... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5013311 | Envelope generator for a power beam The arrangement of this invention concerns a surgical apparatus, in particular for ophthalmological use. In addition to a power beam it includes a beam of coherent visible light (29) which is transformed into at least one elementary beam (30) by means of ... | 05/07/1991 |
| 5010893 | Motion sensor for implanted medical device A motion sensor for use within an implantable medical device provides a digital output signal that can be connected directly to the digital processing and control circuits of a pacemaker or other device. This signal may be used to adjust the basic pacing ... | 04/30/1991 |
| 5009655 | Hot tip device with optical diagnostic capability A hot tip device, typically used for melting and plowing through stenotic deposits in a coronary artery, is provided with optical diagnostic capabilities. The device includes an elongated, flexible member, a filter glass heating element attached to the di... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5007433 | Stimulation device A stimulation device for the determination of the temperature perception of the skin of a patient by means of a stimulator, which is arranged in a casing and which can be heated up or cooled down by a Peltier element. The stimulator (1) is arranged moveab... | 04/16/1991 |
| 5000751 | Apparatus for laser surgery and particularly for the keratotomy of the cornea (III) An apparatus for laser surgery, particularly of the cornea is provided. Through this apparatus, a laser, especially a UV-laser, can be imaged on the tissue undergoing the operation. A diaphragm is arranged in the optical path of the laser and defines the ... | 03/19/1991 |
| 5000752 | Treatment apparatus and method Port wine stain treatment apparatus includes a pad supporting a plurality of diamond tipped needles. The tip of each needle is supplied with laser radiation and the tip acts to scatter laser radiation sideways. Thus, when the pad is applied to the skin, t... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4995392 | Self-preparing electrode with removable plastic abrading brush A self-preparing electrode includes a conductive conical disk and a nonconductive plastic abrading brush removably interfitted through an aperture in the disk. The brush extends axially through the disk cavity to an abrading end of the brush disposed beyo... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4994058 | Surface shaping using lasers A laser system and masking apparatus for reprofiling surfaces, such as corneal surfaces. The system includes a laser and a mask disposed between the laser and the surface to be reprofiled, the mask providing a pre-defined profile of resistance to laser ra... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4994059 | Laser catheter feedback system A control system for a laser catheter device wherein the control system is provided with means for determining the intensity of laser beam energy at two points, one of which is at the distal tip end thereof, and with the other being interposed along a tra... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4994060 | Laser heated cautery cap with transparent substrate A laser heated cautery cap assembly includes a catheter assembly adapted to be introduced into a lumen, such as an arterial opening. The catheter assembly includes at least one optical fiber connected to a laser light source adapted to produce short outpu... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4989604 | Electromagnetic device An electromagnetic energy pulse emitter is disclosed for applying electromagnetic pulses in the frequency range of 2 to 16 hertz to acupuncture points on a patient. The device comprises a transformer and an oscillator for producing electrical pulses of th... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4989610 | Method and system of ECG data review and analysis A method and computerized system for ECG data review and analysis are provided. In preferred embodiments, a transformation is performed on beat data and the transformed data are categorized into beat "bins." The clinician/user may select sensitivity to va... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4988348 | Method for reshaping the cornea A method for reshaping the cornea comprises an initial step of determining the precise volume of corneal tissue which must be removed in order to attain the desired vision correction. A pulses laser beam, having a pulse energy density sufficient to cause ... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4976265 | Method of detecting enterogastric reflux According to the method of detecting enterogastric reflux, the absorption of electromagnetic radiation by the gastric juice is measured at at least two wavelengths of the said radiation, one of said wavelengths corresponding to an absorption peak of a com... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4973330 | Surgical apparatus for modifying the curvature of the eye cornea A surgical apparatus for partially modifying the curvature of the cornea of an eye while the eye is within the patient is disclosed. The device is able to ablate a zone of corneal material in the form of a lenticular lamina. The thickness of the lamina at... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4961739 | Waveform generator for electrosurgical apparatus A waveform generator for electrosurgical apparatus disclosed includes a MxNxP storage device and a parallel to series conversion device. For the storage device, M is the maximum number of different waveforms being stored, N equals the number of bits being... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4951663 | Method for enhanced sterilization of a living-tissue area of prospective surgical invasion The invention contemplates laser-aseptic phototherapy, for enhanced sterilization of an area of prospective surgical invasion of living tissue, by first administering, intravenously, orally or otherwise as appropriate, a photosensitizing agent having the ... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4949734 | Shield for electrosurgical device A transparent shield for the electrode of an electrosurgical device. The shield is designed to prevent the spray of blood and splatter of tissue generated during electrosurgery from being deposited upon the surgeon using the device and is particularly ada... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4950268 | Laser driver and control circuit A control apparatus for a pumped rod-type laser includes an arc lamp disposed to illuminate the lasing medium, such as a NdYAG crystalline rod. The apparatus includes a full wave rectifier to power the arc lamp, and a MOSFET switching circuit to turn on a... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4950266 | Infrared laser catheter system Laser energy produced by a laser operating in the mid-infrared region (approximately 2 micrometers) is delivered by an optical fiber in a catheter to a surgical site for biological tissue removal and repair. Disclosed laser sources which have an output wa... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4947836 | Exerciser with muscle stimulation An exerciser with an electrical stimulating device for exercising persons having paralyzed legs and the like, the exerciser having bicycle-like pedals supported on rotatable arms, and having a switchboard disposed in a plane substantially parallel to the ... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4944302 | Electronic device for cosmetic and medical therapy An electronic device and method for use in cosmetic and medical treatment of a person by application of electrodes to a person's skin. The device includes a high frequency oscillating circuit for supplying high frequency current in the range of from 1 to ... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4934377 | Intraoperative neuroelectrophysiological monitoring system The add-on circuit arrangement permits selective muting of noise signals which are caused by electrosurgery and by a stimulus source during neurophysiological monitoring of a surgical patient. Switches (39, 7 and 24) are provided to select: electrosurgery... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4931053 | Method and apparatus for enhanced vascular or other growth The invention comtemplates promotion or enhanced promotion of vascular or other growth in living body tissue through effectively concurrent in-vivo delivery of at least two beams of laser irradiation at an affected area of body tissue, wherein the irradia... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4917084 | Infrared laser catheter system Laser energy produced by a laser operating in the mid-infrared region (approximately 2 micrometers) is delivered by an optical fiber in a catheter to a surgical site for biological tissue removal and repair. Disclosed laser sources which have an output wa... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4913148 | Method for the treatment of herpes simplex and herpes zoster A method for the treatment, by accelerating the healing process, of acute herpes simplex and acute herpes zoster, and by the reduction of post-herpetic neuralgia, subsequent to determining a dermatone on a body, which dermatome includes an area affected b... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4911160 | Apparatus for laser surgery on a patient lying on an operating table An apparatus for laser surgery on a patient disposed on an operating table is provided. A laser device which produces a laser beam is disposed under the operating table. A beam guiding device is also provided which guides the laser beam from the laser dev... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4911711 | Sculpture apparatus for correcting curvature of the cornea In the context of ultraviolet-laser sculpting of the cornea to achieve optical correction through a newly shaped anterior surface, the invention subjects the laser beam to certain shaping and homogenizing operations prior to any attempt to specially chara... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4907587 | Method for surgical correction of mixed and hypermetropic astigmatism and a device for carrying same into effect The surgical correction is carried out with the aid of thermocoagulation of the cornea along the lines appropriately oriented with respect to the minimum refractive power meridian and to the distal points of the eyeball central optic zone. Two of such lin... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4907586 | Method for reshaping the eye A method for modifying tissue with a quasi-continuous laser beam to change the optical properties of the eye comprises controllably setting the volumetric power density of the beam and selecting a desired wavelength for the beam. Tissue modification is ac... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4907596 | Blood pressure measuring appliance A blood pressure measuring appliance having a pulse beat detector responding to arterial pulse beats, an ECG signal detector and a time measuring apparatus which ascertains the time intervals between peaks of a predetermined type of the ECG signal detecte... | 03/13/1990 |
