The General Hospital Corporation

Emmanouil Rousakis

Conor L Evans

Zongxi Li

Alexander J Nichols

Gabriela Apiou

Nicholas Nowell

Reginald Birngruber

Systems and methods of optical transcutaneous oxygenation monitoring. The oxygenation monitor comprises a photoluminescent oxygen-sensitive probe, a photon source positioned to direct photons at the probe, a photodetector positioned to detect light emitted from the probe when the photon source directs photons at the probe, a controller in electrical communication with the photon source and the photodetector, the controller being configured to execute a program stored in the controller to calculate a level of oxygen adjacent the probe from an electrical signal received from the photodetector. The photon source, the photodetector, and the controller are disposed in or on a support structure.

Systems and methods of optical transcutaneous oxygenation monitoring

Compounds, systems, and methods are provided for the design and assembly of a non-invasive, analyte sensing dressing. The dressing can be therapeutic. The dressing includes a sensor and a matrix. The sensor is capable of detecting analytes such as molecular oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitric oxides, dissolved analytes in plasma, and hydrogen ions. The matrix is at least partially permeable to the analyte. The device emits a detectable signal when the sensor is excited in the presence of the analyte. In one version of the dressing, the sensor includes a meso-unsubstituted metallated porphyrin that is sensitive towards oxygen. The metallated porphyrin can be excited when illuminated at a first wavelength, followed by emission of phosphorescence at a second wavelength whose intensity can be used as an indicator for oxygen concentration.

Compounds, systems, and methods for monitoring and treating a surface of a subject

Compounds, systems, and methods are provided for the design and assembly of a non-invasive, analyte sensing dressing that includes a sensor and a matrix. The sensor is capable of detecting analytes such as molecular oxygen. The matrix is at least partially permeable to the analyte. In one version of the dressing, the sensor includes a meso-unsubstituted metallated porphyrin that is sensitive towards oxygen. The metallated porphyrin can be excited when illuminated at a first wavelength, followed by emission of phosphorescence at a second wavelength whose intensity can be used as an indicator for oxygen concentration. The metallated porphyrin can be prepared from a phosphorescent meso-unsubstituted porphyrin having the Formula (I): wherein M is a metal, wherein each R is independently an atom or a group of atoms, and wherein at least one R is &#x2014;O(C)OR', wherein R&#x2032; is optionally substituted alkyl.

Compounds, systems, and methods are provided for the design and assembly of a non-invasive, analyte sensing dressing. The dressing includes a sensor and a matrix. The sensor is capable of detecting analytes such as molecular oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitric oxides, dissolved analytes in plasma, and hydrogen ions. The device emits a detectable signal when the sensor is excited in the presence of the analyte. In one version of the dressing, the sensor includes a meso-unsubstituted metallated porphyrin that is sensitive towards oxygen. The metallated porphyrin can be excited when illuminated at a first wavelength, followed by emission of phosphorescence at a second wavelength whose intensity can be used as an indicator for oxygen concentration. The porphyrin can have the Formula (II): wherein Rincludes a moiety selected from the group consisting of alkynl groups, triazolyl groups, alkylglutamate groups, and a pair of alkylglutamate groups.

A system and method are provided for the design and assembly of a device including a sensor capable and a compatible matrix material incorporated into a dressing. The sensor is capable of detecting analytes such as molecular oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitric oxides, dissolved analytes in plasma, and hydrogen ions, and the matrix is at least partially permeable to the analyte. The device emits a detectable signal when the sensor is excited in the presence of the analyte.

System and method for monitoring and treating a surface of a subject

Compounds, systems, and methods are provided for a non-invasive, analyte sensing dressing. The dressing includes a sensor and a matrix. The sensor is capable of detecting analytes such as molecular oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitric oxides, dissolved analytes in plasma, and hydrogen ions. The device emits a detectable signal when the sensor is excited in the presence of the analyte. The sensor may include a meso-unsubstituted metallated porphyrin that is sensitive towards oxygen. The porphyrin can be excited when illuminated at a first wavelength, followed by emission of phosphorescence at a second wavelength whose intensity is an indicator for oxygen concentration. An example metallated porphyrin has the Formula(I):  wherein M is a metal, each R is independently an atom or a group of atoms, and at least one R is &#x2014;OR, wherein Ris an atom or a group of atoms.

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