Jeffrey Mark Ellis

US Patent:

6697667, Feb 24, 2004

Filed:

May 31, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/872248

Inventors:

Jeong S. Lee - Diamond Bar CA
Bruce Wilson - Temecula CA
Deborah Kilpatrick - Mountain View CA
Robert Ainsworth - Scotts Valley CA
Bridget A. Hurley - Mountain View CA
Jeffrey T. Ellis - Mountain View CA

Assignee:

Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

International Classification:

A61B 502

US Classification:

600479, 600585, 604523, 356336, 385119

Abstract:

An intravascular device for locating a coronary sinus of a patients heart and method of using the same. In one embodiment, the intravascular device includes an elongated member having at least one lumen and at least one optical fiber coupled to the elongated member. The optical fiber has a distal end configured to contact with a blood flow within the patients heart and a proximal end coupled to a laser Doppler velocimetry system for performing a plurality of laser Doppler velocity measurements of the blood flow within the heart to locate the coronary sinus of the heart. Incorporating LDV technology into an intravascular device such as a catheter or a guidewire system provides diagnostic information of the physiologic environment of the lesion before, during, or after a therapeutic procedure.

Address:

600 Pinewood Dr, Marshall, TX 75672

VIN:

2GCEC13J071531057

Make:

CHEVROLET

Model:

SILVERADO 1500

Year:

2007