Patent ID: 11950803
Assignee: nan
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 14:
15. A needle assembly positionable within anatomy of a patient under visual guidance from an ultrasound system configured to direct incident waves and receive reflected waves, the needle assembly comprising:
a sheath;
a hub; and
an elongate body extending distally from the hub along a longitudinal axis, the elongate body comprising reverberation features spaced axially apart from one another along the longitudinal axis and configured to reverberate the incident waves to produce the reflected waves to be received by the ultrasound system,
wherein the elongate body is configured to be removably disposed within the sheath, and wherein a distal end of the sheath is axially positioned proximal to the reverberation features with the elongate body removably disposed within the sheath.