US 12,419,720 B2
Multimodality ID markers for delineating the position of a region of interest (ROI) within a body
Shalom Strano, Jerusalem (IL); Alexander Lomes, Moshav Hosen (IL); and Steve Krupa, Haifa (IL)
Assigned to SPRINGLOC LTD., Hosen (IL)
Filed by SPRINGLOC LTD., Hosen (IL)
Filed on Apr. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/724,487.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/231,243, filed on Aug. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/179,893, filed on Apr. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0338953 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 90/98 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 90/39 (2016.02) [A61B 90/98 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3925 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3937 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3966 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3983 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3995 (2016.02)] 20 Claims
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
at least first and second markers configured for implantation within a breast of a patient so as to delineate different respective regions of interest within the breast,
an elongate spring that joins the first marker to the second marker, wherein at least one of the first and second markers comprises an antenna and wherein the elongate spring is configured to serve as an external part of the antenna, and
wherein the first and second markers are visually differentiable from each other in a pre-operative mammogram of the breast.