Patent ID: 8521257

Claim:
An interventional device for use while a subject including a mammalian body is within an imaging field of a medical imaging apparatus, said interventional device comprising: an end member, a portion configured to be inserted into one of a natural cavity or an artificially formed cavity of the subject while the subject is within the imaging field of a medical imaging apparatus; and wherein said end member includes: a medical device; a sheath member being configured and arranged to be received with said one of natural or artificial body cavity, a carrier member being one of translatably or rotatably disposed within the sheath member, wherein the carrier member is configured and arranged to selectively deploy the medical device therefrom between a stored position and a deployed position, where in the deployed position a portion of the medical device is disposed in target tissues about said one of the natural or artificial body cavity, and wherein the carrier member includes a plurality of continuously linear guide channels that are each angulated at different angles toward a common axis and that are spaced apart from each other at an outlet end and intersect at the common axis to form a single inlet, where the medical device is deployed from an exit port of one of the plurality of guide channels and each guide channel includes an exit port in the carrier member that is displaced from other exit ports of each other guide channel of the plurality of guide channels, each exit port deploying the medical device at a different angle through an opening in the sheath member.