US 12,144,582 B2
Multi diagnosis and treatment catheter and catheter system comprising same
Hong Ki Yoo, Seoul (KR); Min Woo Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Jin Won Kim, Seoul (KR); Wang Yuhl Oh, Daejeon (KR); and Kyeong Soon Park, Anseong-si (KR)
Assigned to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY), Seoul (KR); CHUNG-ANG UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION, Seoul (KR); KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Daejeon (KR); and Korea University Research and Business Foundation, Seoul (KR)
Appl. No. 17/602,419
Filed by IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY), Seoul (KR); CHUNG-ANG UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION, Seoul (KR); KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION, Seoul (KR); and KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Daejeon (KR)
PCT Filed Apr. 3, 2020, PCT No. PCT/KR2020/004537
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 8, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/209545, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 15, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0040521 (KR), filed on Apr. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0167849 A1, Jun. 2, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/0036 (2018.08) [A61B 5/0084 (2013.01); A61B 5/6852 (2013.01); G02B 6/0008 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multi-diagnostic and therapeutic catheter comprising:
a triple-clad fiber;
a lens coupled to one end of the triple-clad fiber; and
a transparent tube,
wherein the triple-clad fiber includes:
a core configured to guide first diagnostic light;
a first cladding configured to surround the core and including an outer periphery configured to guide second diagnostic light;
a second cladding configured to surround the first cladding;
a third cladding configured to surround the second cladding and guide therapeutic light; and
a coating layer configured to surround the third cladding,
wherein the third cladding includes a scattering pattern formed on an outer periphery thereof, and
wherein the transparent tube is configured to surround a region in which the scattering pattern is formed and the coating layer is not formed.