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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2004
Lid B. Wong, San Diego, CA (US);
Hua Mao, San Diego, CA (US);
Donovan B. Yeates, Chicago, IL (US);
Kim Sangkyung, Atlanta, GA (US);
Peter Hesketh, Atlanta, GA (US);
Lid B. Wong, San Diego, CA (US);
Hua Mao, San Diego, CA (US);
Donovan B. Yeates, Chicago, IL (US);
Kim SangKyung, Atlanta, GA (US);
Peter Hesketh, Atlanta, GA (US);
BioTechPlex Corporation, San Marcos, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for monitoring low dynamic pressures in confined spaces, such system comprising a catheter, a multilayered corrugated membrane of diameter less than 2 mm with a reflective inner layer mounted within said catheter; a set of optical fibers comprising one or more illuminating fibers and two or more detecting fibers which are contained within said catheter and whose ends are set at differing distances from the membrane; an illuminating system coupled to said illuminating fibers; and a detection system coupled to said illuminating fibers.