APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION AND TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TISSUE

• US 20150080714A1
• Filed: 09/26/2014
• Published: 03/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gyrus ACMI, Inc. (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Spiration, Inc. (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Dillard, David H., Gonzalez, Hugo X., Hoffman, Peter, Shuman, Brandon James
• Application Number:
  US14/498,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20150080714A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/424
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3468 for implanting or removing devices, e.g. prostheses, implants, seeds, wires devices for implanting seeds A61M37/0069
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/04 by heating by applying electromagnetic radiation A61B18/18; hyperthermia using electric or magnetic fields, radiation or ultrasound A61N
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1492 having a flexible, catheter-like structure, e.g. for heart ablation A61B18/1477 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/18 by applying electromagnetic radiation, e.g. microwaves radiation therapy A61N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1815 using microwaves
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00047 using Peltier effect
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00541 Lung or bronchi
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00577 Ablation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/3908 Soft tissue, e.g. breast tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/392 Radioactive markers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/3954 magnetic, e.g. NMR or MRI
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/3966 Radiopaque markers visible in an X-ray image
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/3995 Multi-modality markers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/17 Comprising radiolucent components
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/05 Detecting, measuring or recording for diagnosis by means of electric currents or magnetic fields; Measuring using microwaves or radio waves impedance plethysmography A61B5/0295; measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof A61B5/11; detecting, measuring or recording bioelectric or biomagnetic signals of the body or parts thereof A61B5/24
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/062 using magnetic field
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/39 Markers, e.g. radio-opaque or breast lesions markers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/70 Cleaning devices specially adapted for surgical instruments
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/406 using implantable thermoseeds or injected particles for localized hyperthermia preparations of seeds and particles A61K41/0052
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 7/022 : intracavitary

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention include devices, systems, and methods for implanting and locating traceable markers in a region of a patient'"'"'s body such as a lung, and in particular lung nodules which may be difficult to locate using traditional means. Further embodiments describe devices, systems, and methods that may be used to treat regions in the lung such as lung nodules with various treatment modalities including heating, microwave irradiation, chemical treatment, and which may be used in conjunction with embodiments of the traceable markers described herein.

Claims

1. A system for locating a region of tissue, the system comprising:

a traceable marker configured to be implanted and retained in the region of tissue, wherein the traceable marker comprises one or more localization attributes; and

,

a sensor configured to detect one or more localization attributes.