US 12,274,531 B2
Optoacoustic probe
Jeffrey N. Harris, San Antonio, TX (US); Steven Solis, San Antonio, TX (US); Carlos Avila, San Antonio, TX (US); and George Lamberson, San Antonio, TX (US)
Assigned to SENO MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS, INC., San Antonio, TX (US)
Filed by Seno Medical Instruments, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US)
Filed on Nov. 21, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/197,762.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/590,218, filed on Nov. 22, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0150749 A1, May 23, 2019
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/0095 (2013.01) [A61B 2562/12 (2013.01); A61B 2562/16 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optoacoustic probe for optoacoustic imaging of a tissue, the probe having a distal end operable to contact the tissue and a proximal end, the probe comprising:
a transducer assembly configured to receive optoacoustic return signals;
an optical window configured to carry light along a light path to the tissue; and
a housing comprising:
(i) a distal portion having a probe face that includes an acoustic opening into which the transducer assembly is disposed and an optical opening into which the optical window is disposed, the transducer assembly and the optical window extending proximally from the probe face; and
(ii) a gasket disposed within the optical opening at the probe face and engaging and extending around the optical window, the gasket configured to form an optoacoustic barrier to optically and acoustically isolate a portion of the optical window from the housing of the probe.