A System for Delivering Embolic Materials Endovascularly to Patients

Description of Invention:
The Public Health Service seeks commercial entities interested in licensing patent rights that pertain to a system for delivering embolic materials endovascularly to patients. The system includes a smart catheter that provides quantitative feedback to a physician during embolotherapy. This includes a detecting portion for measuring flow velocity (e.g., Doppler tip), amount of reflux, and amount of embolic particles (e.g., embolization beads) delivered by the catheter. A graphical user interface displays the measured information in real-time.

Applications:

• transarterial chemoembolization
• drug eluting bead
• intravenous drug delivery
• drug distribution monitoring
• real-time imaging

Inventors:
Matthew R Dreher (CC)
Karun V Sharma (CC)
David M Tabriz (CC)
Ankur Kapoor (CC)
Peter S Guion (CC)
Bradford J Wood (CC)
Elliot B Levy (CC)


Patent Status:
HHS, Reference No. E-184-2011/0
US, Application No. 61/486,722 filed 16 May 2011


Licensing Status:
Available for licensing.

Collaborative Research Opportunity:
The NIH Clinical Center, Radiology and Imaging Sciences Department, is seeking statements of capability or interest from parties interested in collaborative research to further develop, evaluate, or commercialize a catheter for quantitative feedback during embolotherapy. Please contact Ken Rose, Ph.D. at 301-435-3132 or rosek@mail.nih.gov for more information.


Portfolios:
Devices/Instrumentation
Devices/Instrumentation - Therapeutics
Devices/Instrumentation - Software



For Licensing Information Please Contact:
Michael Shmilovich Esq.
NIH Office of Technology Transfer
6011 Executive Blvd. Suite 325,
Rockville, MD 20852
United States
Email: shmilovm@mail.nih.gov
Phone: 301-435-5019
Fax: 301-402-0220


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Updated: 06/2011