Photonic crystal fibers and medical systems including photonic crystal fibers

US7331954B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• OmniGuide, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Burak Temelkuran · London, GB
• Charalambos Anastassiou · Malden, US
• David Torres · Stoughton, US
• Gil Shapira · Brookline, US
• Max Shurgalin · Bedford, US
• Gregor Dellemann · Cambridge, US
• Ori Weisberg · Cambridge, US
• Steven A. Jacobs · Needham, US
• Tairan Wang · Chelmsford, US
• Uri Kolodny · Cambridge, US
• Jesse Rusk · Dedham, US
• Robert Floyd Payne · Lucas, US
• Yoel Fink · Cambridge, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 8, 2005
• Grant date: Feb 19, 2008
• Expiry date: Nov 16, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/42
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In general, in one aspect, the invention features methods that include directing radiation to a target location of a patient through a photonic crystal fiber, the photonic crystal fiber having a hollow core and flowing a fluid through the hollow core to the target location of the patient.