US 12,220,543 B2
Elongated medical catheter including marker band
Moussa Chehade, Toronto (CA)
Assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited, Galway (IE)
Filed by Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited, Ballybrit (IE)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/411,178.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/076,535, filed on Sep. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0072274 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. A61M 25/01 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 25/0108 (2013.01) [A61M 2025/0166 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
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6. An apparatus, comprising:
an elongated medical catheter having a catheter distal portion and a catheter proximal portion, the catheter having a catheter radiopacity;
a marker band having a first end portion and a second end portion and being positioned between the catheter distal portion and the catheter proximal portion, the marker band having a marker band radiopacity;
a first sideband having a first sideband radiopacity and being directly bonded to the first end portion of the marker band; a second sideband having a second sideband radiopacity and being directly boned to the second end portion of the marker band;
wherein the first sideband radiopacity is less than the catheter radiopacity and the second sideband radiopacity is less than the marker band radiopacity, and wherein the catheter radiopacity decreases near the marker band.