MEDICAL ULTRASOUND DEVICE WITH DETERMINATION OF TEMPERATURE ON DISTAL END Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61B8/08 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medical equipment, namely to ultrasound catheter-based devices for temperature determination. The device contains an elongated body, which has the proximal end, the distal end, the distal end area and a longitudinal axis, passing along the elongation direction, one or more ultrasound converters for the generation of acoustic radiation, located in the distal end area inside the elongated body, a transmitting element, located on a trajectory of acoustic radiation rays, which is in fact transparent for acoustic radiation. The transmitting element additionally contains an inbuilt ablation electrode, formed by means of a thin conducting layer. A control unit is functionally connected with an ultrasound converter and is made with a possibility of registering the acoustic length of a path through the transmitting element and determining the temperature on the distal end, basing on the registered acoustic length of the path. Device operation is provided by an operation method and software-containing a computer-readable carrier.

EFFECT: application of the invention makes it possible to measure the temperature in integration with inbuilt ultrasound converters.

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