Patent ID: 9675401
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61M

Claim:
1. A medical system comprising: a medical device comprising a structure and a plurality of transducers, the structure including a plurality of members, each of the plurality of members including a respective set of transducers of the plurality of transducers located thereon and including a distal end; a catheter sheath comprising a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending between the proximal end of the catheter sheath and the distal end of the catheter sheath, the lumen sized to allow at least the structure of the medical device to be delivered therethrough to a bodily cavity located in a body; at least one control line operably coupled to the structure to, for each of the plurality of members of the structure, cause bending of the respective member of the structure by a respective arcuate amount and generate a respective modified trajectory following a respective coiled path along which the distal end of the respective member of the structure moves as compared to a respective trajectory following a respective path along which the distal end of the respective member of the structure would move absent the at least one control line; and at least one drive component that coordinates, with an advancement, distal end first, of each member of the plurality of members of the structure outwardly from the distal end of the catheter sheath, the at least one control line to (a) cause bending of each member of the plurality of members of the structure by the respective arcuate amount, and (b) cause, for each of the plurality of members of the structure, the distal end of the respective member of the structure to move along the respective modified trajectory following the respective coiled path.