Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm James A. Neal
  • Perfusion sensitive biopsy extractor
    Patent number: 6632183
    Abstract: A technique for quantifying perfusion and removing a biopsy sample at a site in a living body wherein an instrument having a perfusion sensor is introduced into the body at a site to be investigated to there interrogate the tissue. The biopsy specimen is collected when the perfusion sensor produces a signal indicative of perfused, viable tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Thermal Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Harry Frederick Bowman, Gregory T. Martin