Acist Medical Systems, Inc.

Hlt, Inc.

Egg Medical, Inc.

Other

Invasatec, Inc.

University of Minnesota

Heart Leaflet Technologies, Inc.

Medwerks, LLC

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

Robert Foster Wilson

John P Gainor

Jiyan Liu

Douglas J Duchon

Uma S Valeti

Gary A Thill

Christopher M Banick

Edward R Miller

Thomas M Paulson

Dale R Manstrom

Jung Kwon Pak

Amy Raatikka

Doug Duchon

Khader Mohiuddin

Vince Copa

Dale K Nelson

Thomas John McPeak

Sidney Donald Nystrom

James Montague

Katherine H Anderson

James P Smith

Mark Gabbard

Evan Michael Leingang

James Leo Pokorney

Scott Robert Wilson

Joseph Czyscon

Jason Fredrick Hiltner

Martin G Hieb

Thomas M Snyder

Todd Suchecki

Robert Kim

Cassandra Ann Piipo Svendsen

James Ryan Mujwid

Kendall R Waters

Alan Evans

Jason Hiltner

Jon K Moon

Richard A Oftedahl

Amy R Raatikka

Kyle Thunstrom

Jung Wook Suh

Glenn Toews

James L Pokorney

Thomas Mcpeak

Carmelo J Panetta

Bryan Brutlag

Steven J Bailin

Thomas Paulson

Farzad Azimpour

Cassandra Ann Piippo Svendsen

Evan M Leingang

Norman Schwartz

Joseph S Czyscon

Jung W Suh

Robert Wilson Scott

John Gainor

A delivery device usable to deliver an inverting implant is provided that includes a positioning mechanism that automatically initiates the inversion process once a predetermined length of the implant has exited a delivery catheter. The positioning mechanism allows the implant to be safely and accurately deployed with reduced operator experience and in a greater variety of target locations.

Inversion delivery device and method for a prosthesis

A transparent radiation shield, attachable to a patient support platform, and movable to shield a physician from imaging radiation, includes a transparent computer display that is controllable to provide a data overlay on the shield pertaining to patient data and/or x-ray images.

Display device for reducing radiation exposure to medical personnel

A system of shields designed to provide substantially greater protection, head to toe, against radiation exposure to health care workers in a hospital room during procedures which require real-time imaging. The shields are placed around the patient and the x-ray table and provide protection even when the x-ray tube is moved to various angles around the patient.

Radioabsorbent assemblies

X-ray procedure tables with improved structural strength that enable radiation shielding and integrated medical device and monitoring systems. The design allows the incorporation of an integrated patient support structure, radiation shielding and associated devices and conduits for medical care in procedures that employ X-ray imaging.

Sled-table for radiographic imaging and medical device integration

A mattress system is provided that is optimized for the hospital setting and includes a guiderail system that accepts a variety of accessories for attachment thereto. The guiderail system may have integrated data lines, power lines, gas lines, and/or fluid lines. Also provided are radioabsorbant shields, trays and other components designed for optimal use with the mattress system.

Multimodality medical procedure mattress-based device

Embodiments for assessing flow at an anatomical region of interest are disclosed. One embodiment uses pulsed contrast media injections at a known frequency along with corresponding image data to derive a measurement of blood flow velocity at the region of interest. Another embodiment uses incremental changes in known contrast media injection flow rates to match the blood flow rate relative to one of these known contrast media injection flow rates based on the presence of a particular indicia in image data. For example, this indicia can be the flow of contrast media out from a coronary artery back into the aorta or the onset of a steady state pixel density. A further embodiment uses contrast media injections that are synchronized with the cardiac cycle. For example, contrast media injections can be synchronized with the diastolic and/or systolic phases and used to measure blood flow accordingly.

Flow measurement using image data

This disclosure provides systems and methods for measuring fluid flow in a vasculature system of a patient. Some systems may include an injection system configured to inject a bolus of fluid into a vessel of a patient. Some systems may include a measurement engine configured to monitor the bolus of fluid in the vessel using measurement data generated by an intravascular measuring device. The measurement engine may determine a travel distance of the bolus of fluid and an elapsed time during which the bolus of fluid traversed the travel distance based on the measurement data. A fluid flow rate (e.g., velocity, volumetric flow) of the vessel may be calculated using the travel distance and the elapsed time.

Fluid flow measurement systems and methods

A stentless support structure capable of being at least partly assembled in situ. The support structure comprises a braided tube that is very flexible and, when elongated, becomes very long and very small in diameter, thereby being capable of placement within a small diameter catheter. The support structure is preferably constructed of one or more thin strands of a super-elastic or shape memory material such as Nitinol. When released from the catheter, the support structure folds itself into a longitudinally compact configuration. The support structure thus gains significant strength as the number of folds increase. This radial strength obviates the need for a support stent. The support structure may include attachment points for a prosthetic valve.

Stentless support structure

An intravascular sensor delivery device for measuring a physiological parameter of a patient, such as blood pressure, within a vascular structure or passage. In some embodiments, the device can be used to measure the pressure gradient across a stenotic lesion or heart valve. The sensor delivery device can be sized to pass over different sizes of guidewires to enable usage in coronary and peripheral arteries, for example.

Physiological sensor delivery device and method

Growing community of inventors

Roseville, MN, United States of America

Robert Foster Wilson