Patent · US Expired

Lithotripter kinematics

US5078124A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Dornier Medizintechnik GmbH · DE

Inventors

Thomas Viebach · Pischertshofen, DE
Peter Buchbauer · Garching bei München, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 24, 1990
Grant date	Jan 7, 1992
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 24, 2010

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B17/2255
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A lithotripter includes a therapeutic head with a source for the production and focusing of shockwaves into the body of a patient and is mounted such that a center axis of the head is forced to move and remain on the surface of a cone whose apex point coincides with the focus of the therapeutic head, external to the head, so as to obtain isocentric motion of the head vis-a-vis that focus, even if that focus is made to be positioned in the body of the patient and an ultrasonic transducer is isocentrally mounted on the therapeutic head.

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