Patents by Inventor Michalina Gora
Michalina Gora has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11490797Abstract: An exemplary apparatus for obtaining data for at least one portion within at least one luminal or hollow sample can be provided. For example, the apparatus can include a first optical arrangement configured to transceive at least one electromagnetic radiation to and from the portion(s). The apparatus can also include a wavelength dispersive second arrangement, which can be configured to disperse the electromagnetic radiation(s). A housing can be provided with a shape of a pill, and enclosing the first and second arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: The General Hospital CorporationInventors: Michalina Gora, Dongkyun Kang, Norman S. Nishioka, Brett Eugene Bouma, Guillermo J. Tearney, Robert Carruth, Kevin Gallagher, Jenny Sauk, Moon Gu Lee, Nima Tabatabaei, Milen Shishkov
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Patent number: 11304596Abstract: An exemplary apparatus for obtaining data for at least one portion within at least one luminal or hollow sample can be provided. For example, the apparatus can include a first optical arrangement configured to transceive at least one electromagnetic radiation to and from the portion(s). The apparatus can also include a wavelength dispersive second arrangement, which can be configured to disperse the electromagnetic radiation(s). A housing can be provided with a shape of a pill, and enclosing the first and second arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATIONInventors: Michalina Gora, Dongyun Kang, Norman S. Nishioka, Brett Eugene Bouma, Guillermo J. Tearney, Robert Carruth, Kevin Gallagher, Jenny Sauk, Moon Gu Lee, Nima Tabatabaei
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Patent number: 10736494Abstract: According to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, apparatus, device and method can be provided which can provide imaging of biological tissues, e.g., luminal organs in vivo, using optical techniques in an automatic or semiautomatic manner. The exemplary apparatus, device and method can utilize a tethered capsule catheter with a mechanism for manual, semi-automatic or automatic traversing in the luminal organ with a controlled velocity and/or image quality. The exemplary apparatus can include feedback information about tension applied to the catheter during its movement that can be used to adjust velocity and assure patient comfort and safety for example during passing through natural sphincters and/or narrowing of the luminal organs and preventing from breaking of the catheter. The exemplary apparatus can also adjust velocity in order to provide good quality of acquired images, for example to engaged peristalsis and provide contact with the tissue.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: The General Hospital CorporationInventors: Michalina Gora, Guillermo J. Tearney, Robert Carruth
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Publication number: 20190261840Abstract: An exemplary apparatus for obtaining data for at least one portion within at least one luminal or hollow sample can be provided. For example, the apparatus can include a first optical arrangement configured to transceive at least one electromagnetic radiation to and from the portion(s). The apparatus can also include a wavelength dispersive second arrangement, which can be configured to disperse the electromagnetic radiation(s). A housing can be provided with a shape of a pill, and enclosing the first and second arrangements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Michalina Gora, Dongyun Kang, Norman M. Nishioka, Brett Eugene Bouma, Guillermo J. Tearney, Robert Carruth, Kevin Gallagher, Jenny Sauk, Moon Gu Lee, Nima Tabatabei
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Patent number: 10285568Abstract: In accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, device and method can be provided which can facilitate imaging of biological tissues, e.g., luminal organs in vivo, using optical techniques. The exemplary device can include different designs an features of one or more catheters, which can illuminate the tissues, and collect signals from the inside of the lumen. In another exemplary embodiment according to the present disclosure, a balloon-catheter can be provided with the flexible neck, which can absorb most of the bending. According to still another exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, a balloon-catheter tethered capsule can be provided, and according a yet further exemplary embodiment, a structured balloon design can be provided with one or more protuberances, thus enabling imaging of the structures in close contact, e.g., without compressing of the tissue.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: The General Hospital CorporationInventors: Guillermo J. Tearney, Brett Eugene Bouma, Michalina Gora, Melissa Suter, Hongki Yoo, Milen Shishkov
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Publication number: 20170007098Abstract: According to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, apparatus, device and method can be provided which can provide imaging of biological tissues, e.g., luminal organs in vivo, using optical techniques in an automatic or semiautomatic manner. The exemplary apparatus, device and method can utilize a tethered capsule catheter with a mechanism for manual, semi-automatic or automatic traversing in the luminal organ with a controlled velocity and/or image quality. The exemplary apparatus can include feedback information about tension applied to the catheter during its movement that can be used to adjust velocity and assure patient comfort and safety for example during passing through natural sphincters and/or narrowing of the luminal organs and preventing from breaking of the catheter. The exemplary apparatus can also adjust velocity in order to provide good quality of acquired images, for example to engaged peristalsis and provide contact with the tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATIONInventors: Michalina GORA, Guillermo J. TEARNEY, ROBERT CARRUTH
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Publication number: 20160345809Abstract: Exemplary apparatus can be provided which includes a capsule catheter first arrangement, a tether second arrangement which connected to the first arrangement; and a weighted structure connected to or provided in the first arrangement. For example, the weighted structure can have a particular weight that causes the first arrangement to interact with gravity. In this exemplary manner, that the first arrangement can be controllably translated and positioned within a luminal anatomical structure and/or provide information about anatomic features of imaged organ.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicant: The General Hospital CorporationInventors: Guillermo J. Tearney, Michalina Gora, Robert Carruth
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Publication number: 20140221747Abstract: These and other objects of the present disclosure can be achieved by provision of an apparatus for illuminating a structure(s), which can include a first arrangement and a second arrangement which can each be configured to rotate and deflect a radiation(s) transmitted therethrough at an angle with respect to an axis of rotation thereof. There can be a plurality of rotating third arrangements, where at least one can be connected to the first arrangement, and at least another one can be connected to the second arrangement. A fourth arrangement can be connected to the third arrangements, and can he configured to rotate the third arrangements. One of the rotating third arrangements can be flexible, can have a length that is greater than ten times a diameter of the first arrangement or the second arrangement, can he surrounded by a housing, and/or can contain an optical waveguide arrangement extending therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: The General Hospital CorporationInventors: Guillermo J. Tearney, William C. Warger, II, Robert Carruth, Lara Wurster, Michalina Gora
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Publication number: 20140187999Abstract: An exemplary apparatus for obtaining a tissue sample(s) within a luminal anatomical structure can be provided. For example, an imaging first arrangement can be configured to generate an image of a portion(s) of the luminal anatomical structure, and a second arrangement can be configured to extract the tissue sample(s) based on the image. A pill-shaped housing can at least partially enclose the first and second arrangements.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: The General Hospital CorporationInventors: Guillermo J. TEARNEY, Moon Gu LEE, Sharath BHAGATUAL, Robert W. CARRUTH, Michalina GORA
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Publication number: 20130310643Abstract: An exemplary apparatus for obtaining data for at least one portion within at least one luminal or hollow sample can be provided. For example, the apparatus can include a first optical arrangement configured to transceive at least one electromagnetic radiation to and from the portion(s). The apparatus can also include a wavelength dispersive second arrangement, which can be configured to disperse the electromagnetic radiation(s). A housing can be provided with a shape of a pill, and enclosing the first and second arrangements.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: The General Hospital CorporationInventors: Michalina Gora, Dongkyun Kang, Norman M. Nishioka, Brett Eugene Bouma, Guillermo J. Tearney, Robert Carruth, Kevin Gallagher, Jenny Sauk, Moon Gu Lee, Nima Tabatabei
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Publication number: 20120004506Abstract: In accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, device and method can be provided which can facilitate imaging of biological tissues, e.g., luminal organs in vivo, using optical techniques. The exemplary device can include different designs an features of one or more catheters, which can illuminate the tissues, and collect signals from the inside of the lumen. In another exemplary embodiment according to the present disclosure, a balloon-catheter can be provided with the flexible neck, which can absorb most of the bending. According to still another exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, a balloon-catheter tethered capsule can be provided, and according a yet further exemplary embodiment, a structured balloon design can be provided with one or more protuberances, thus enabling imaging of the structures in close contact, e.g., without compressing of the tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: The General Hospital CorporationInventors: Guillermo J. Tearney, Brett E. Bouma, Michalina Gora, Melissa Suter, Hongki Yoo, Milen Shishkov