Patent ID: 8551022
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A sensor guide wire for an intravascular measurement of a physiological variable in a living body, comprising: a core wire running along at least a part of the sensor guide wire; a cylindrical-shaped jacket comprising a tubular jacket wall, wherein the jacket wall comprises a peripheral surface extending between opposite longitudinal ends of the jacket and has a longitudinal opening, wherein the peripheral surface of the jacket wall is one external surface of the sensor guide wire, wherein a portion of the core wire that extends longitudinally along a sensor region of the sensor guide wire is disposed in the longitudinal opening of the jacket wall such that the portion of the core wire in the longitudinal opening is another external surface of the sensor guide wire, wherein the portion of the core wire in the longitudinal opening and the peripheral surface form a circumferential wall around an interior space in the sensor region; and a sensor element arranged in the interior space in the sensor region of the sensor guide wire.