The inventive method requires advancing a three-dimensional imaging balloon catheter to the site of a lesion to be imaged, inflating or molding the balloon to image the lesion, deflating the balloon, withdrawing the catheter from the body lumen and re-inflating the balloon which reassumes its memorized...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US6203508?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6203508 - Thermal and stress mapping of body lumens
