Extraluminal imaging based intraluminal therapy guidance systems, devices, and methods

An intravascular therapy guidance system includes a processor circuit in communication with an extravascular imaging device. The processor circuit receives, from the extravascular imaging device, an extravascular image stream. The processor circuit determines a therapy region of a blood vessel in the extravascular image stream and outputs a screen display to a display in communication with processor circuit. The screen display includes the extravascular image stream of the blood vessel including movement of an intravascular therapy device within the blood vessel to deliver an intravascular therapy to the therapy region and a graphical representation of the therapy region overlaid on the extravascular image stream. The processor circuit determines, based on the extravascular image stream, whether the intravascular therapy device is aligned relative to the therapy region to deliver the intravascular therapy and modifies the screen display to indicate whether the intravascular therapy device is aligned to deliver the intravascular therapy

Method of increasing the conductivity of a transparent conductive layer

A method of increasing the conductivity of a transparent conductive layer, in which a photoresist layer which patterns the transparent layer is given tapered edges and is partially etched. The partial etching exposing the edge regions of the underlying transparent conductor layer, which are the selectively plated. This method has a single patterning stage of the transparent layer, but uses partial etching of a tapered resist layer in order to expose a small edge region of the transparent layer for coating with a conductive layer (which can be opaque)

Active matrix liquid crystal displays and methods of manufacturing such

A method for use in the fabrication of active plates for pixellated devices, such as active matrix liquid crystal displays, having pixel electrodes (38) and associated address lines (32) formed from a layer of transparent conductive material (53) through which the conductivity of the address lines is improved. The transparent conductive layer (53) and a metal layer (54) are deposited in succession and followed by a shielding layer (60), e.g. of photoresist, which is patterned into a configuration of regions (67, 68, 69) corresponding to the required pixel electrodes and address lines with an etching property of the shielding layer at these respective regions being different. This enables the regions of this shielding layer corresponding to the pixel electrodes to be selectively etched away, thereby allowing the metal at these regions to be selectively removed while leaving metal at the address lines. The method simplifies the production of low mask mount TFT active plates with improved address line conductivity