Patent ID: 9656004
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61L,A61M,Y10T

Claim:
1. A medical device comprising: one or more rod shaped bodies, wherein at least one of the rod shaped bodies comprises one or more non-metallic filaments and a non-ferromagnetic matrix material, wherein the matrix material encloses and/or agglutinates the filaments, and marker particles for generating a signal in an X-ray or magnetic resonance imaging process; and an envelope polymer in which the one or more rod shaped bodies are embedded, wherein a high tenacity fiber (HT-fiber) is embedded either in the matrix material or in the envelope polymer, wherein the HT-fiber extends along the whole longitudinal direction of the medical device, and wherein the HT-fiber is more flexible than the non-metallic filaments, wherein the medical device is a guidewire, catheter, mandrel, stylet, stent, biopsy needle, puncture needle or cannula.