GRANT R BORN
Pharmacy in Grand Rapids, MI

4767333, Aug 30, 1988

Aug 17, 1987

7/085565

Grant R. Born - Grand Rapids MI

G09B 2328

434262

A family of laser evolved models providing laser surgical teaching and proficiency practice targetry. A first model element, comprising a rectangular sheet of laser impervious material having arrays of laser vaporizable markings imprinted thereon, provides targetry for exercising controls of a surgical laser governing spot size and power level of a laser beam therefrom, and of an associated micromanipulator in directing the laser beam to specific target elements of the arrays and in traversing the laser beam across and around each such target element. Further model elements, provided as replicas of portions of the human anatomy, each pre-formed with a plurality of indentations which serve as receptacles for appropriate volumes of a suitable laser vaporizable material simulating laser surgically treatable lesions. Said indentations are of appropriate sizes, shapes, and depths, and are distributed to be representative of lesions of a variety of types such as basal cell carcinomas, keratoses, warts, cysts, and the like. Said anatomical model elements are fabricated of fire-hardened clay substantially impervious to laser vaporization, and may thus be repetitively utilized.

4046140, Sep 6, 1977

Dec 11, 1975

5/639854

Grant R. Born - Grand Rapids MI

A61B 100

128 2R

An apparatus and method for photographing the cervix for diagnostic and treatment purposes includes a speculum and a special close-up camera having a ring-shaped flash lamp surrounding its lens aperture. The outer diameter of the speculum is sufficiently large to dilate the vaginal opening and the inner diameter is adapted to surround the cervix. The innermost end of the speculum is beveled for ease of insertion and for positioning over the cervix while the opposite end is adapted for positioning adjacent the flash lamp and lens of the camera. In use, the walls of the speculum act as a fiber-optic system illuminating the cervix. The resulting photograph is actual size such that lesions and other abnormalities may be accurately measured directly on the print.