Abstract:
An intracranial implant to position a fiber bundle to a specified region of a brain of an animal. The implant may include a base support to be fixed to a skull of the animal over an orifice drilled in the skull, a hollow conduit arranged through the base support to guide the fiber bundle to the brain of the animal through the drilled orifice and a first locking member arranged on the base support, to cooperate with a ferrule of the fiber bundle, the first locking member configured to lock the fiber bundle to the specified region of the brain of the animal.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an imaging device comprising: an illumination module (1) comprising means for emitting at least one excitation beam; a scanning/injection module (2) comprising an image waveguide (3), the two ends of which, the proximal end (3a) and the distal end (3b) respectively, are connected via a plurality of optical fibres, and scanning/injection means (6) designed to inject the at least one excitation beam in turn into a fibre of the image waveguide (3) and then into the proximal side (3a) of said waveguide and a detection module (4) comprising means for detecting a light flux (14) collected at the distal end (3b) of the waveguide. At least either the illumination module (1) or the detection module (4) is optically conjugate with the scanning/injection module (2) via a conjugating optical fibre (5, 7). The use of conjugating fibres (5, 7) enables the maintenance, repair and updating of the device to be improved. It also enables modal filtering of the excitation beam to be carried out and ensures that the device is confocal.
Abstract:
In at least one aspect, embodiments disclosed herein relate to a miniaturized scanning system to generate movement of a flexible device positioned at a distal part of a medical tool. The miniaturized scanning system comprises: an inner shaft with a longitudinal axis, adapted to guide said flexible device along said longitudinal axis, an abutment comprising an external surface and adapted to maintain said device, a pusher mechanism adapted to engage with said abutment and comprising at least one end portion adapted to contact said external surface of the abutment at a contact point, wherein said end portion is configured to translate along said longitudinal axis of the inner shaft and wherein the translation of said end portion results in a bending of the device in a bending plane defined by the longitudinal axis of the inner shaft and said contact point.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a novel use of a system for imaging by fiber-optic confocal fluorescence in vivo in situ, comprising a fiber-optic probe for imaging a tissue or an alveolus situated distant from the distal vision of a bronchial endoscope. The present invention also relates to a system for imaging by fluorescence in vivo, comprising an endoscope equipped with an operator channel comprising a fiber-optic probe (20) that can be moved longitudinally between a retracted position and at least one position of extension outside the endoscope. The probe (20) also comprises graduations for evaluation of the distal end (21) of the probe (20). The imaging system according to the invention can also be provided with an intermediate catheter receiving the fiber-optic probe and inserted in an endoscope. This intermediate catheter ensures anchoring on biological tissue and also aspiration of biological material.
Abstract:
An intracranial implant to position a fiber bundle to a specified region of a brain of an animal. The implant may include a base support to be fixed to a skull of the animal over an orifice drilled in the skull, a hollow conduit arranged through the base support to guide the fiber bundle to the brain of the animal through the drilled orifice and a first locking member arranged on the base support, to cooperate with a ferrule of the fiber bundle, the first locking member configured to lock the fiber bundle to the specified region of the brain of the animal.
Abstract:
La présente invention concerne un dispositif d'imagerie, comprenant: un module d'illumination (1) comprenant des moyens pour émettre au moins un faisceau d'excitation; un module de balayage et d'injection (2) comprenant un guide d'image (3) dont deux extrémités respectivement proximale (3a) et distale (3b) sont reliées par une pluralité de fibres optiques, et des moyens (6) de balayage et d'injection agencés pour injecter l'au moins un faisceau d'excitation tour à tour dans une fibre du guide d'image (3) et du côté proximal (3a) du guide; un module de détection (4) comprenant des moyens pour détecter un flux lumineux (14) collecté à l'extrémité distale (3b) du guide. Au moins un parmi le module d'illumination (1) et le module de détection (4) est conjugué optiquement au module de balayage et d'injection (2) par une fibre optique de conjugaison (5, 7). L'utilisation de fibres de conjugaison (5, 7) permet d'améliorer la maintenance, la réparation et la mise à jour du dispositif, et peut en outre permettre de réaliser un filtrage modal du faisceau d'excitation et d'assurer la confocalité du dispositif.
Abstract:
L'invention concerne une tête optique miniaturisée prévue pour équiper l'extrémité distale d'un faisceau de fibres optiques souples balayé par un faisceau laser, ladite tête optique étant destinée à venir au contact d'un échantillon et exciter ledit échantillon de manière confocale ; cette tête optique comprenant des moyens de correction des aberrations sphériques et des moyens de focalisation. Selon l'invention, les moyens de focalisation comprennent :- au moins une première lentille (L4) de forte convergence associée à une lentille (L5) boule ou demi-boule disposée à l'extrémité distale de la tête optique, et- des moyens de correction du chromatisme axial et latéral pourvus d'une unique lentille divergente (3b) dont la courbure est sensiblement centrée sur la pupille du faisceau de fibres optiques et disposée à la juste distance de cette pupille pour laquelle les conditions d'achromatisation latérale coïncident avec les conditions d'achromatisation axiale; cette lentille divergente étant associée à une seconde lentille convergente (L3a) sous forme d'un doublet (L3).
Abstract:
A connector to connect a fiber bundle probe to a light injection module including a tightening cam having an opening of a specified shape adapted to receive the fiber bundle probe, a cam driving coupled to the tightening cam, wherein the tightening cam is configured to translate in response to rotation of the cam driving until the tightening cam is blocked, at least one spring extending between the tightening cam and the cam driving, wherein the at least one spring is configured to resist when the cam driving is actuated by rotation and the tightening cam is blocked, and a locking mechanism to lock the cam driving into a selected position.