Nuvera Medical, Inc.

Atherosys, Inc.

Shifamed Holdings, LLC

Todor Jeliaskov

Alan K Schaer

Charles D Emery

Mark Kane

Ram L Bedi

Ivan S Mitzev

Amr Salahieh

Tom Saul

Douglas Glenn Wildes

Bruno Hans Haider

Joseph Creagan Trautman

Colin Mixter

Marc Bitoun

Medical tool positioning and control devices, systems, and methods. Handle assemblies that allow a steerable shaft to be steered, while allowing the separate movement of a medical tool. The handle assemblies can allow for rotation and axial movement of the medical tool, and optionally with an actuator disposed distal to a second actuator that controls steering of the steerable shaft.

Medical tool positioning devices, systems, and methods of use and manufacture

A method for detecting the presence of an atheroma in an artery of interest using an ultrasound apparatus can include performing a first procedure on a first day. The first procedure can include detecting one or more blood vessels in a target region of a patient's body. The procedure can include identifying, from the one or more blood vessels, an artery of interest; automatically detecting spatial boundaries of constituent layers of an arterial wall of the artery of interest and calculating, via a processor of the ultrasound apparatus, a cross-sectional intima-media area (IMA) of the artery of interest at a first location along a length of the artery of interest. The procedure can include automatically calculating, via the processor of the ultrasound apparatus, IMA of the artery of interest at a second or more locations along the length of the artery of interest. In some embodiments, the procedure includes automatically calculating, via the processor and based at least in part on the calculations of the IMAs of the artery of interest at the first location and at the second or more locations, an intima-media volume (IMV), arterial volume, and luminal volume of the artery of interest over a predetermined length of the artery of interest.

Method and apparatus for the automatic detection of atheromas in peripheral arteries

An ultrasound imaging system for guiding a user to acquire ultrasound image data sets that can be analyzed for the presence of atherosclerosis. In one embodiment, the processor is programmed to analyze ultrasound image data for a vessel of interest and to control a user interface that suggests how an operator should move a transducer to acquire ultrasound image data with the vessel of interest in a desired location. The processor stores multiple ultrasound image data sets taken along a length of the vessel of interest to be analyzed for the presence of an atheroma.

Apparatus and method to guide ultrasound acquisition of the peripheral arteries in the transverse plane

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Campbell, CA, United States of America

Todor Jeliaskov