Patent ID: 9682156
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: A61K,B22F,B82Y,C22C,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method of forming a visual fiducial mark on a target, the method comprising: intravenously providing a plurality of particles, wherein a surface of each of the plurality of particles is at least partially coated with a coating consisting of an adhesive that is selectively activated in response to radiation; patterning radiation from a radiation source into a predetermined pattern of radiation indicative of the visual fiducial mark; and circulating the plurality of particles until at least some of the plurality of particles are selectively adhered to the target b emitting the radiation toward the target in the predetermined pattern of radiation to activate adhesive on respective surfaces of the at least some of the plurality of particles proximate to the target thereby causing the at least some of the plurality of particles proximate to the target to adhere to the target as the visual fiducial mark having the predetermined pattern.