Guided puncturing needle and puncturing guiding method

• US 8,241,301 B2
• Filed: 01/23/2007
• Issued: 08/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huilin Zhang, Zhejiang Kindly Medical Devices Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Kindly Enterprises Development Group Co., Ltd.), Su Feng
• Original Assignee: Huilin Zhang, Zhejiang Kindly Medical Devices Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Kindly Enterprises Development Group Co., Ltd.), Su Feng
• Inventors: Zhang, Hui-Lin, Feng, Su, Feng, Wei-Jian
• Primary Examiner(s): JAWORSKI, FRANCIS J
• Application Number:
  US12/161,729
• Publication Number:
  US 20100280354A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,030 Days
• Field of Search: 600/407, 600/411, 600/417, 600/427, 600/461, 604/116, 604/117, 606/130, 606/185
• US Class Current: 606/130
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0233 Pointed or sharp biopsy instruments
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/02 by cooling, e.g. cryogenic techniques devices for cooling specific reflex points of the body within cell-life limits A61H39/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1477 Needle-like probes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/1425 Needle
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/067 for measuring angles
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/374 NMR or MRI
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/376 using X-rays, e.g. fluoroscopy
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/506 for diagnosis of nerves
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/11 with guides for needles or instruments, e.g. arcuate slides or ball joints

Abstract

A guide puncturing needle which is integratively used with a scanning and detecting device, such as CT, MRI or the like, and provides puncturing, biopsy, injection, implanting, and the physical diagnose and therapy, such as RF, microwave, freezing, laser and the like, and a puncturing guide method for applying the puncturing needle to puncture are provided. Since the guide puncturing needle is provided with a needle-entering angle guide means (2), a puncturing layer levelling component (31), a needle-entering reference line levelling component (32), whether the CT gantry and the MRI scanning layer are at any angle, the actual needle-entering layer is always adjusted to just superpose to the CT scanning layer, the actual needle-entering angle is always just the same as the needle-entering angle needed for the scanning and detecting device, thus allow the puncturing needle to arrive at the focus point exactly accurately.

Claims

1. A puncturing needle guiding device comprising:

i) a needle-entering angle guide, adapted to be rotatably connected a needle when placed in said guide via a connector, further including;

i.a) an angle reference line (N) vertical to a surface where the needle enters, and

i.b) an indicator of said guide, including a needle-entering angle indicating plate, for indicating an intersected angle between an actual enter direction of the needle and the angle reference line (N),

ii) a needle-entering layer leveler, sidely affixed to the guide, further comprising

ii.a) an indicator of said layer leveler, including a scanning layer leveling benchmark, for indicating a deviatingly rotated angle of a rotating plane of the needle, wherein a deviating angle rotating axis of the indicator of said layer leveler is parallel to the guide (W), and

iii) a reference line leveler, making the angle reference line of the guide (W) on the same plane of a hammer weight line, further comprising;

iii.a) an indicator of said line leveler, including an angle indicating base plate, wherein

a deviatingly rotated axis y of the indicator of said line leveler is perpendicular to the deviating angle rotating axis; and

iv) a level benchmark, making a horizontal line of the rotating plane parallel to a needle-entering layer, and

v) a top open rectangular casing, including a top opening and is affixed sidely to the guide, with the layer leveler and the line leveler (Y) disposed within, wherein the indicator of the layer leveler and the indicator of the line leveler are exposed in the top opening mounted with a transparent cover.

2. The puncturing needle guiding device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a rotating spindle is at the same axis with the angle rotating axis of the layer leveler;

said layer leveler and said line leveler being integrally fixed and pivotally installed on said casing with the rotating spindle as a pivotal axis;

and said rotating spindle includes a protruding extended out of said casing, with an external surface thereof being installed with a rotating angle scale for the rotating spindle, and a knob with a pointer affixed to said protruding.

3. A puncturing guiding method for targeting a focus point by the needle of a puncturing needle guiding device as claimed in claim 1, comprising the following steps:

1.a) Obtaining 3D coordinates of the focus point by a CT or an MRI scanning device;

1.b) Obtaining a puncturing sectional layer (Y0Z) from the CT or MRI scanning device,

1.c) marking on a body skin a needle-entering point, and

1.d) marking on the body skin a projection line of a scanning layer obtained from the CT or MRI scanning device;

1.e) calculating a needle-entering angle, based on an angle of a line connecting the point and the needle-entering point relative to a horizontal line, or relative to a vertical line of the horizontal line;

calculating a needle-entering depth, based on a length of the line;

2) installing the needle on the needle-entering angle indicating plate of the guide;

3) Leveling a puncturing needle-entering angle;

3.a) Adjusting the angle of the needle on the angle scale plate of the guide along an axis of the needle to a scanner-detected angle detected by the CT or MRI scanning device for needle-entering;

4) Aiming a needle point of the needle at the needle-entering point, allowing the hammer weight line of the line leveler to point at a line of zero degree or zero scale on the angle indicating base plate of the indicator of said line leveler;

5) Deviatingly rotating the puncturing needle guiding device in accordance with an inclined angle of a CT gantry of the CT or MRI scanning device until reaching the same value of an angle as the angle α

displayed by the angle display device of a scanning layer leveling component of the scanning device;

6) Aiming a scanning layer leveling benchmark of the indicator at the axis of the needle and at the projection line of the scanning layer on the body skin; and

7) Performing a puncturing according to the needle-entering depth obtained in step 1.e).

4. The puncturing guiding method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the is a bubble level gauge in step 4), a bubble of the bubble level gauge is positioned at the center.

5. The puncturing guiding method as claimed in claim 3, wherein upon the puncturing in step 7) is performed the puncturing is evaluated by a CT scanning.