Sheath for tissue spectroscopy

United States Patent [w]

Crowley

US006096065A [ii] Patent Number: [45] Date of Patent:

6,096,065 *Aug. 1,2000

[54] SHEATH FOR TISSUE SPECTROSCOPY

[75] Inventor: Robert J. Crowley, Sudbury, Mass.

[73] Assignee: Boston Scientific Corporation, Natick, Mass.

[ * ] Notice: This patent issued on a continued prosecution application filed under 37 CFR 1.53(d), and is subject to the twenty year patent term provisions ol 35 U.S.C. 154(a)(2).

[21] Appl. No.: 08/939,707 [22] Filed: Sep. 29, 1997

[51] Int. C I. A61N 1 00

[52] U.S. CI 607/88; 600/478; 600/121;

600/310

[58] Field of Search 607/88-89; 606/15-17;

600/478, 476, 477, 310, 121

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