Sarah Catherine Donnelly

Title: Sarah Catherine Donnelly and Biomedical Imaging of Bacteria and Viruses.

Introduction

Sarah Catherine Donnelly is an inventor associated with London, Ontario, Canada, and Multi-Magnetics Inc. Her work includes an invention for imaging bacteria and viruses in the body.

Latest Patents

Donnelly is associated with 1 patent, titled “Biomedical Imaging of Bacteria and Viruses.” The invention describes non-invasive methods for locating bacteria by labeling bacteria or bacteriophages with a radioisotope or radio-metal. In one approach, labeled bacteria are delivered to the gut for imaging. In another, labeled bacteriophages are administered so they infect bacteria already present in the body, allowing the bacteria’s location to be identified.

The patent describes using PET or SPECT imaging, potentially guided by functional or structural MRI or CT. It also discusses approaches that use MRI alone or combine MRI with PET or SPECT.

Career Highlights

Donnelly’s listed patent work focuses on biomedical imaging methods that could help visualize bacteria in the gut and elsewhere in the body. The described techniques use labeled bacteria or bacteriophages to make their locations detectable through medical imaging.

Collaborations

Donnelly is associated with Multi-Magnetics Inc. Her listed coworkers include Michael Silverman and Frank S. Prato.

Conclusion

Sarah Catherine Donnelly’s patent describes imaging approaches that use labeled bacteria or bacteriophages to help locate bacteria in the body, including through PET, SPECT, MRI, and CT techniques.