Patent ID: 9149653
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: A61F,A61M,A61N

Abstract:
1. A therapeutic catheter, comprising: a catheter body that is sized, shaped and adapted to not deform under pressure encountered during passage from an insertion location to a target location within a radiation treatment subject for radiation therapy at the target location, the catheter body having an outside surface; a therapeutic balloon associated with the catheter body, said therapeutic balloon having a collapsed condition and an expanded condition; one or more radio therapeutic sources having radioactivity, said therapeutic balloon being sized, shaped and adapted to position at least one of the radio therapeutic sources for radiation therapy when the balloon is inflated; at least one of the radio therapeutic sources comprises a plurality of elongated rods supporting radio therapeutic material and having an end portion longitudinally movable with respect to the catheter body to impart to at least one of the elongated rods movement between a first position and a second position at which the at least one of the elongated rods is bowed outwardly; wherein the plurality of elongated rods are secured together at respective distal end portions of each of the elongated rods and secured to a shaft, respective proximal end portions of at least two of the elongated rods are independently longitudinally movable and bow out in response to relative longitudinal movement between the distal end portions and the proximal end portions; at least one detector that collects data on radiation at a treatment location of the therapeutic catheter; a hyperthermia component that delivers hyperthermia treatment that interacts with radiation delivery by at least one of the radio therapeutic sources; and the data collected by the detector, wherein said data monitors interaction between at least one of the radio therapeutic sources and the hyperthermia component.