42 patents
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Mri-compatible Surgical Cannulae for Transferring a Substance to And/or from a Patient
18 Jan 24
A cannula for transferring a substance to and/or from a patient includes a tubular support sleeve and a transfer tube.
Peter Piferi
Filed: 19 Sep 23
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Surgical image-guided navigation devices and related systems
16 Jan 24
MRI compatible localization and/or guidance systems for facilitating placement of an interventional therapy and/or device in vivo include: (a) a mount adapted for fixation to a patient; (b) a targeting cannula with a lumen configured to attach to the mount so as to be able to controllably translate in at least three dimensions; and (c) an elongate probe configured to snugly slidably advance and retract in the targeting cannula lumen, the elongate probe comprising at least one of a stimulation or recording electrode.
Parag V. Karmarkar, Kimble Jenkins
Filed: 6 Nov 19
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Inline Pump System
28 Dec 23
A therapeutic delivery system includes a cannula configured to deliver a therapeutic into an anatomical region, the cannula having an internal lumen and a pumping system coupled to the cannula.
Jeremy Stigall, Nathan Williams, Kamal Vij
Filed: 27 Jun 23
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Trajectory Planning for Minimally Invasive Therapy Delivery Using Local Mesh Geometry
7 Dec 23
Systems and methods are provided for determining surgical trajectories (including target points and entry points) for delivering therapy to a patient's brain using a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the patient's brain (including the patient's scalp, skull, and brain) adapted from imaging data (e.g., MRI data, CT data, etc.) of the patient's brain.
Lyubomir ZAGORCHEV
Filed: 1 Jun 23
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MRI-compatible surgical cannulae for transferring a substance to and/or from a patient
24 Oct 23
A cannula for transferring a substance to and/or from a patient includes a tubular support sleeve and a transfer tube.
Peter Piferi
Filed: 13 Jan 20
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Methods for surgical navigation
10 Oct 23
Methods for surgical navigation use a trajectory frame/guide assembly for use with surgical navigation systems that includes a base having a patient access aperture formed therein.
Rajesh Pandey, Maxwell Jerad Daly, Peter G. Piferi
Filed: 31 Dec 20
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Front-loadable Fluid Transfer Assemblies and Related Medical Fluid Transfer Systems and Methods
5 Oct 23
Devices for transferring fluid to or from a subject include a plunger assembly coupled to or coupleable to a cannula assembly to allow target fluid to be “front-loaded” into a distal end of the cannula assembly while the stylet is withdrawn a distance to create a vacuum and define a flow channel.
Maxwell Jerad Daly, Peter G. Piferi
Filed: 31 May 23
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Surgical Systems Including Flexible Mri-compatible Surgical Catheters for Transferring a Substance to And/or from a Brain of a Patient
5 Oct 23
Surgical catheters with sufficient flexibility to deflect in response to brain shift in vivo while remaining in a target trajectory to a target in the brain have an elongate body and an exposed internal distal tip.
Peter G. Piferi
Filed: 28 Feb 23
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Surgical Therapy Systems and Related Methods
28 Sep 23
Systems for treatment include a sheath assembly with a guide sheath and a shoulder, a stylet releasably couplable to the guide sheath and extending a distance out of a distal end thereof for rigidity to facilitate proper positioning, a bolt configured to hold a seal member, a bolt nut coupleable to the bolt member to clamp the sheath assembly and the seal member in the bolt.
Peter G. Piferi
Filed: 28 Feb 23
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Intrabody Surgical Fluid Transfer Assemblies with Adjustable Exposed Cannula to Needle Tip Length, Related Systems and Methods
14 Sep 23
Devices for transferring fluid to or from a subject include an elongate tubular cannula having opposing proximal and distal ends with an axially extending lumen.
Jesse Flores, Peter G. Piferi
Filed: 2 Dec 22
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Extension Tube Assembly and Related Medical Fluid Transfer Systems and Methods
31 Aug 23
Devices for transferring fluid to or from a subject include an extension tube assembly with an axially extending inner tube configured to couple to an elongate tubular cannula having opposing proximal and distal ends with an axially extending lumen and an axially extending inner tube.
Peter G. Piferi
Filed: 5 May 23
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Front-loadable fluid transfer assemblies and related medical fluid transfer systems and methods
25 Jul 23
Devices for transferring fluid to or from a subject include a plunger assembly coupled to or coupleable to a cannula assembly to allow target fluid to be “front-loaded” into a distal end of the cannula assembly while the stylet is withdrawn a distance to create a vacuum and define a flow channel.
Maxwell Jerad Daly, Peter G. Piferi
Filed: 25 Sep 20
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Extension tube assembly and related medical fluid transfer systems and methods
27 Jun 23
Devices for transferring fluid to or from a subject include an extension tube assembly with an axially extending inner tube configured to couple to an elongate tubular cannula having opposing proximal and distal ends with an axially extending lumen and an axially extending inner tube.
Peter G. Piferi
Filed: 29 May 20
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Image-guided Surgical Systems with Quantitative Evaluation of In Vivo Thermal Treatments and Related Methods
5 Jan 23
Methods and systems that provide quantitative assessments of in vivo thermal treatments, such as ablations, during image-guided surgeries using a high-resolution pre-operative MRI image segmented with a shape constrained and deformable mesh representations of brain structures and generating 3-D visualizations of thermally treated volumes during the thermal treatment that can provide near real time visual and quantitative feedback to a clinician.
Lyubomir Georgiev Zagorchev, Christian Richard Osswald, Nicolas Gallo, Kamal Vij
Filed: 20 Apr 22
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Intrabody surgical fluid transfer assemblies with adjustable exposed cannula to needle tip length, related systems and methods
3 Jan 23
Devices for transferring fluid to or from a subject include an elongate tubular cannula having opposing proximal and distal ends with an axially extending lumen.
Jesse Flores, Peter G. Piferi
Filed: 13 Jan 20
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Directional-device Intrabody Placement Systems and Related Methods
22 Sep 22
Methods and systems that identify an intrabody orientation of a directional medical device, such as a deep brain stimulation (DBS) lead, use a mesh model.
Lyubomir Georgiev Zagorchev, Roberto Felipe Rubio, Edwin Kelly
Filed: 1 Feb 22
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Surgical Base Assemblies for Trajectory Guide Systems and Associated Trajectory Guide Systems and Methods
16 Jun 22
A surgical base assembly for an MRI-guided interventional system includes a base body, a plurality of thumbwheels held by the base body and coupled to a respective plurality of threaded members that extend therethrough whereby a user can rotate the thumbwheels to lift the base body to a desired stand-off location relative to patient.
David John Sayler, Rajesh Pandey, Maxwell Jerad Daly, Peter G. Piferi
Filed: 30 Sep 21
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Image processing circuits for real-time visualizations using MRI image data and predefined data of surgical tools
3 May 22
Circuits and computer program products onboard and/or adapted to communicate with an scanner that electronically recognize predefined physical characteristics of the at least one tool to automatically segment image data provided by the scanner whereby the at least one tool constitutes a point of interface with the system.
Kimble Jenkins, Peter Piferi, Philip Bradley Hotte, Pavel Farberov, Timothy Neil Orr, Paul Arthur Geiger, David John Sayler
Filed: 27 Jun 19
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Devices for surgical navigation systems
22 Feb 22
Trajectory frame assemblies for image guided surgical systems have a trajectory frame with a support column that can removably secure different components such as a tracking probe and an MER driver adapter to define and/or follow a desired intrabody trajectory.
Peter G. Piferi, Jesse Flores, Maxwell Jerad Daly, Rajesh Pandey
Filed: 27 Jun 19
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MRI compatible intrabody fluid transfer systems and related devices and methods
22 Feb 22
Systems and methods for transferring fluid to or from a subject use a set of MRI compatible components that can aspirate intrabody structure and/or fluids.
Maxwell Jerad Daly, Rajesh Pandey
Filed: 12 Dec 18